Evangelism: Witnessing to Our Hope in Christ (original) (raw)

2012, International Review of Mission

Witnessing to Our Hope in Christ Introductory Remarks Evangelism is the queen of all Christian ministries. It is the highest calling of the Christian community because the community itself is borne of evangelism and exists to evangelise. "It is the raison d'être of the Church," according to this paper (¶ 35). As such, this statement is intended to be a call to action, a prophetic voice to remind the church and the entire global Christian community of the duty and joy of telling "the story of Jesus" (¶ 67). Evangelism "is intrinsic to the life of the disciple" (ibid). The paper is not intended to be "just" a theological paper: if you, the reader, accept it only as such, it has failed in its purpose-yet if you are inspired to greater evangelistic effort, then this statement has succeeded.