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The Reformed faith proposes the highest aim for evangelism. It is not the salvation of souls. Nor is it the growth of Christ’s church. Nor yet is it the coming of Christ’s kingdom. All those aims of evangelism are important, even of inestimable importance. yet they are but means to the accomplishment of that end [...]

Christianity Today is covering a shift in ministry at Willow Creek:
For three decades Willow has been focused on making the church appealing to seekers. But the research shows that it’s the mature believers that drive everything in the church—including evangelism.
Hawkins says, “We used to think you can’t upset a seeker. But while focusing on that [...]

Our church is going through the Way of the Master Basic Training course on Sunday nights. And it just so happens that John Piper preached on evangelism Sunday, in a sermon titled You Are God’s Midwife for the New Birth of Others. We downloaded and watched it last night, and I highly recommend it:
…Tell people [...]

The Art of Manfishing
by Thomas Boston.
Christian Heritage. 104 pages.
ISBN 1857921062
Also available from Monergism Books, and online for free.
After finishing Dever’s The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, I decided to follow it up with a jump back in time to 1699, to Thomas Boston’s The Art of Manfishing, also on evangelism.
Unlike Dever’s book, which deals with evangelism [...]

The Gospel & Personal Evangelism
by Mark Dever.
Crossway Books, 2007. 128 pages.
ISBN 1581348460
Like most Christians, I struggle with evangelism. Being introverted doesn’t help, but a big part of it is that we live in a culture that so values pluralism, uncertainty, etc., that it is an uphill climb to share a universal truth like the Gospel [...]

I finished up Dever’s The Gospel and Personal Evangelism last night. (Review coming soon… Probably. ;-)) I’m following it up with Thomas Boston’s The Art of Manfishing, a short book from a Scottish Puritan on evangelism, from around 1700. Here’s a crumb (emphasis added):
O my soul, then see that gifts will not do the business. [...]

Why do we not evangelize? Mark Dever provides one explanation: it has the potential for immediate discomfort. Someone might get mad at us, they might reject our message, etc.
We typically want to process our experiences immediately, and if they are unpleasant, we are inclined to change course in order to some way avoid the discomfort [...]

Transcript here.