Are there specific aspects of this article that you would like expounded upon or certain points for which you would like me to provide my research? I would be more than happy to do so.

Good to hear from you. Sorry, it has taken me so long to reply, I have been spending a lot of time getting ready for my Greek final next week. I agree with you completely. I’m not trying to promote merely a verbal evangelism at all. The point I was attempting to make was that giving money to a missions program or tithing so that the church can offer evangelistic services or programs does not negate our responsibility to be personally involved in evangelism.

The problem is that too many people view evangelism as something that they can outsource to someone else or to the church as a whole. In my opinion, the person who has this mentality is not an evangelistically minded person.

I am a big proponent of relational evangelism…intentionally building relationship with people for the purpose of being a witness and a testimony to them. Evangelism affects our heart before it affects our actions, and trying to find ways around being personally involved in evangelism is a sign that there is a problem.

Good to see you posting again! As always, I enjoy engaging your concerns. I like this one, especially.

It seems to me, however, that the argument is a bit fuzzy. On the one hand, you are critiquing the commitment to a “kind” of evangelism, i.e. door to door. I get that. I also see you have boiled “evangelism” down to two forms, corporate and personal. On the other hand, I’m not sure you’re clear on what you mean by “personal evangelism.” I get it overall, I just think you may have left some of your readers in the dark. What is personal evangelism? Are you not alluding also to an underlying commitment to a “kind” of evangelism, namely some sort of Romans Road, sharing gospel tracts, Evangelism Explosion, etc. In other words, some kind of formal way that people systematically share the gospel with others. Is this what you are alluding to? If so, I wonder what the real difference is, other than walking up to someone’s door, or an organized group going out in the name of a particular church?

Now to what I am alluding!

I think of the words of St. Francis of Assisi who said, “Preach the gospel … when necessary, use words.” In what ways can people share, or rather, “live” the gospel faithfully in front of their family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. that is effective in “communicating” the gospel and thus draws questions and conversation? So when you say, “evangelism that keeps as its focus the Gospel message,” does this include methods other than verbal parroting of a systematic script, or chain of pre-selected passages?