Those whose minds were blinded and did not obey the gospel were perishing and would ultimately reap the vengeance of divine wrath II Cor. On the other hand, to those who believed, the gospel had effectively become the power of God unto salvation Rom. We can find insight into what the gospel means to Christians through the words of William Tyndale, who was a great English Reformer and Bible translator. Evangelism is more than telling people that Jesus loves them or that He died for them. It is telling people that they have offended a Holy God and stand before Him as condemned sinners.
It is sharing with them that the good news, the best news of all, is that Jesus died for that very type of person. Jesus died to reconcile those condemned individuals to this God of justice. It is sharing with people that through faith they can be saved and can avoid an eternity of suffering for their offense to God.
The Good News can only be understood in context of the bad news. If people do not understand the bad, if they do not realize that they are repugnant to God, befouled by their sin, they can not understand just how good the Good News is!
Unlike evangel , the term outreach is not found in the Bible, though the idea certainly is. Outreach implies action more than message. The Salvation Army is an excellent example. When tragedy strikes, especially in the case of natural disasters, the Salvation Army is often on the scene, providing food, clothing and other necessities. My local church has some excellent and exciting outreach programs. For example, every year our town has a festival in a park down on the shores of Lake Ontario and our church brings in a climbing wall and allows all the children to scale the wall for no cost.
This is an act of love by the church and allows people to make a connection with the church — a connection we hope will eventually draw them into our fellowship.
We see this as a selfless act and an act of grace as we give people something for nothing. So often people are shocked that we would do this, for we usually represent the only activity in the entire festival that costs nothing. And so we reach out to people to give them an opportunity to see Christians in action and to learn about our church.
This is outreach. Unbelievers are given a glimpse of the love of Christ through believers. Believers take their love for the lost into the community and allow them to see changed hearts in action. Evangelism's ultimate goal is to bring people to Christ notice I didn''t say to church. Once a person gets saved, then the Discipleship Pastor steps in with his team that deals with the "spiiritual man".
Outreach dealt with ministry outside the walls of the church, which included Evangelism, feeding homeless, and helping non-members. Inreach dealt with ministry within the walls of the church, specifically helping those within the congregation that needed whatever help hospital visitis, cleaning, paying bills.
So bascially, it's not anything to argue about. It's something that should be defined by church leadership the head pastor having the final say so and then people submitting to what's been defined. DivineMusician 1Love My Praise is high and my worship is deep. God you have been so good to ME. If evangelism where a hand, outreach would be a finger. True outreach causes you to evangelize.
What better way to show the love of Christ than to help others. Matthew 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me. But in all of your outreach there should be evangelism. Pages: [ 1 ] Go Up. From that same word, we derive the word gospel. We find also that many words we use in English are in reality synonymous evangel ism , gospel and good news all speak of the same thing and find their root in the same word.
They speak of the act of spreading the gospel and to the content of the message that is given. This is an important point to note they refer both to the method and the message. The word euangelion is found in many places throughout the New Testament. Easton Illustrated Dictionary. In the Elwell Evangelical Dictionary we read specifically about Pauls application of the term which he used over 60 times and is found in every one of his letters except for Titus.
Unto this gospel he was set apart Rom. His special sphere of action was the Gentile world Rom. Since Paul accepted the gospel as a sacred trust Gal. For the sake of the gospel Paul was willing to become all things to all men I Cor. No sacrifice was too great. Eternal issues were at stake. Those whose minds were blinded and did not obey the gospel were perishing and would ultimately reap the vengeance of divine wrath II Cor. On the other hand, to those who believed, the gospel had effectively become the power of God unto salvation Rom.
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