November, 2010, Gospel Advocate

J. J. Turner:

 

I read your article in the November, 2010, Gospel Advocate. Nice article.  You wrote: "Sadly. In many congregations evangelism is the last thing done and the first thing given up."

 

Question: in your view are the people in those congregations saved or lost?  If they are saved then there is no problem. If they are lost don't you think someone should be warning them, us?

 

What does evangelism involve? What does preaching the gospel include? Most congregations who have put evangelism on the back burner "offer THE invitation" and therefore believe they are "taking the gospel to all the world." They do so even though the target of such information is not in attendance.

 

As a whole the Churches of Christ have changed Jesus' instructions (command?) "Go into all the world" to "If they come to our building." How non-evangelistic can we be and still be saved?   

 

Nice article. And I've read several of your books, so nice books also.

 

 

 

 

Thanks, John Jenkins
865-803-8179  cell
Gatlinburg, TN

Email: jrjenki@gmail.com
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