In the middle of our series on “Missions, Culture and Being Biblical” I thought it was good to post this review of a book on sharing the Gospel.
This is a good book for readers who need an introduction to biblical evangelism. Those who are familiar with Ray Comfort’s book “The Way of the Master” will not find anything radically new in this book but it is a book I still recommend to refresh one’s evangelism method if you subscribe to “the Way of the Master.” This work features different chapters going back and forth between the author Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort. The law of God is described and explained as to why it is a powerful tool in evangelism. Both authors’ joy for sharing the Gospel will leap out of the pages and hopefully will stir the reader to witness. I appreciate the practical tips and pointers throughout the book. In particular, the book changed one of the tactics of my evangelism where in the past I use to ask people “Have you ever told a lie?” but now I ask people “In your life time, how many lies do you think you have told?” as a practical way of making someone think more about the severity of their sins with lying; I find the authors’ advice to be helpful because it avoid the hurdle that some people have that a few lies are no big deal. I also appreciated the personal stories that Cameron and Comfort shared in the book and some of them are stories I haven’t heard of before. I enjoyed hearing Kirk Cameron’s story of how he came to faith—and also how he discovered the Way of the Master and meeting up with Ray. I also enjoyed the account of both authors having a meal with Bill Bright, the founder of Campus Crusade and them talking about biblical evangelism towards the end of Bright’s life—and how Bright affirmed the authors concern for a clear Gospel presentation that’s biblical. It is a good book that I would highly recommend both to veteran evangelists and those new to sharing their faith. I appreciated also that this book is not just about open air preaching and sharing to strangers—the book also discussed about sharing to family.
Sounds like a good book… I am glad it covers a bit about sharing the gospel with family members. This is a subject that is, many times, overlooked yet is very difficult for many of us. Our family members know us very well (including all our shortcomings and have a tendency to concentrate on those)
Thanks SJ Lord bless.
I did think it was a good book! Family members are also the hardest sometimes in the sense that familiarity for some reason breed contempt. But you are right there are also the baggage that they know our faults and sins.
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Thanks for sharing this; just for you to know two days ago I shared one of your re-blogs with Jay Smith’s messages against the Insider Movement to a facebook page against “Chris-lam” (mixing of Islam and Christianity) and they shared it as their own post. I hope the Lord uses it to reach people to teach the truth about this dangerous movement and that it be an exercise for believers to be more discerning!
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Thanks!
You’re very welcome Jim.
It is a good book and a very biblical approach to evangelism. There was a small group of folks who use “The Way of The Master” method of evangelism, that gets to the issue of sin at a recent annual event in Colorado Springs. Most evangelism these days is more of an ‘adventure in missing the point’, inviting the lost to a Jesus who wants to fix all of their temporal problems and issues.
I love how you said this:
” Most evangelism these days is more of an ‘adventure in missing the point’, inviting the lost to a Jesus who wants to fix all of their temporal problems and issues.”
I had to laugh because that’s so true especially the word picture of missing the point. I think we’ve seen the same thing where people go “share Jesus” but the discussion was not going anywhere because they are willing to sell any ware except the Gospel or they become so friendly and “no agenda” that they well, become not helpful to anybody.
I teach our guys at our church the Way of the Master, I think it is a helpful way of focusing on sin, then to the Gospel we go!
Thanks for this book review, SLIMJIM. The Way of the Master have been a blessing. Although there are many methods, the Gospel content is the most important. A content that has Christ uneclipsed will magnify the beauty of the message.
Amen
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