Evangelism & Discipleship
Dying without Christ
Would you please pray with me that men and women could carry the gospel to 3 of the neediest countries in the world. Right now over 1,100 people die per hour in India without Christ. Over 1,000 die per hour in China without Christ. Over 200 die per hour in Indonesia without Christ. Will you help us hurry the gospel…
Charles Spurgeon on “all”
What then? Shall we try to put another meaning into the text than that which it fairly bears? I trow not. You must, most of you, be acquainted with the general method in which our older Calvinistic friends deal with this text. “All men,” say they,—“that is, some men”: as if the Holy Ghost could not have said “some men”…
6 Reasons to Keep Sowing the Seed
Evangelism is likened in the Bible at times to seed sowing. Most famously, Jesus told a parable about a sower going forth to sow. In that parable, Jesus highlights that the results of the sowing often are dependent upon the condition of the soil. In each instance, the sower was the same, the seed was the same, but there were…
Did Paul’s Strategy Work?
The following articles come from a book by James Montgomery Boice, Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997), 319–326. After an investment of time like that, what were the results? In contemporary terms we would say that we have examined Paul’s goals and studied his strategy; now we want a period of evaluation. What happened? There were…
How Paul evangelized a city
The following articles come from a book by James Montgomery Boice, Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1997), 319–326. Initial Contact The first thing Paul did was establish initial contact with the people. This initial contact is not described in chapter 19, which we are studying, but in chapter 18, verses 19–20. Paul had been at Corinth…