{"id":435,"date":"2011-06-10T00:22:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T04:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/euangelion\/?p=435"},"modified":"2011-06-10T00:22:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T04:22:42","slug":"guess-who-quotes-on-evangelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2011\/06\/guess-who-quotes-on-evangelism\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who? Quotes on Evangelism!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here are some cool quotes on evangelism. Guess who said them?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are engaging in the work of new creation, in seeking to bring advance signs of God\u2019s new world into being in the present, in justice and beauty and a million other ways \u2026 then at the centre of the picture stands the personal call of the gospel of Jesus to every child, woman, and man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proper model is not (1) to see mercy as the means to evangelism, or (2) to see mercy and evangelism as independent ends, but (3) to see both word and deed, evangelism and mercy, as means to the single end of the spread of the kingdom of God.\u00a0 To say that social concern could be done independently of evangelism is to cut mercy loose from kingdom endeavor.\u00a0 It must then wither.\u00a0 To say that evangelism can be done without also doing social concern is to forget that our goal is not individual \u201cdecisions,\u201d but the bringing of all life and creation under the lordship of Christ, the kingdom of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some cool quotes on evangelism. 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