Note: This is a guest post by Dan Cartwright. He’s been a brother who has been iron sharpening iron with us on here and social media for years. His blog can be found here. He also tweets.
What follows below is part one of a two part series! The second post will be scheduled on Monday.
What is Evangelism?
Many people use the word evangelism in different ways. However, what does the Bible say about this important word? When we look to Scripture, we run into a problem: there is no direct-equivalent word for our English word evangelism in the New Testament. Its origin is rooted in three Greek words:
euangelion—“gospel”—to describe what is said (Mark 1:14–15)
euangelistes—“evangelist”—to describe the person who is telling the gospel (Acts 21:8; Eph. 4:11)
euangelizo— “to proclaim the gospel”—to describe the activity of telling the gospel (Rom. 10:15).
Evangelism, then, is the English term for the act of communicating the gospel, an act conveyed in the New Testament by the verb euangelizo (‘to bring good news’).[i]
The Domain for Truth 