Monday, May 29, 2006

How about this incredibly tiny picture? Many people have no idea of the market out there for mini-books. That's right...full length books with incredibly small print at a great price!! Not really, this is just the picture I found first. I bought this book on recommendation by Mark Dever at the Together for the Gospel conference. It turned out to be a good buy. This has some of the best stuff on evangelism that I have ever read.

Most books on evangelism are method-centered; that is, written by some author claiming that they have the best step-by-step way to present the gospel to a person. However, as Will Metzger says in this book, if we evangelize according to a man's method, we have lost focus. His source for how to evangelize is the Bible and one can easily tell that his presentation of the information inside the book is fruit resulting from years and years of application and experience. Another reason I enjoyed the book is because he calls his book "the whole gospel to the whole person", an idea much needed in our evangelism today as we fall short in preaching a complete gospel or in relating to real people. It is practical, sympathetic, and most importantly - it's true. The main theme of the book is that we must understand the gospel. Largely, the church today is preaching a false, ineffective, and deficient (implied by "false") gospel. The church has turned the gospel into an echo of man's worth, rather than a demonstration of God's holiness, righteousness, and love. Metzger also does a great job of making evangelism less mechanical and job-like, and shows it more as what it really is - an overflow of worship.

1 comment:

BHG & Co. said...

Mr. Rogers...

I just wanted to drop in and say hi... now that I have busted into the blogging world, I will be dropping by to see how things are going. I have enjoyed your book summaries and look forward to hearing about how things are going with you in CS....

talk to you later,
Bill