Pre-Evangelism
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 : By Hugh Williams
On Sunday, the Gospel Conversations class discussed “pre-evangelism.” What’s that? If “evangelism” is “telling people about the good news,” then “pre-evangelism” is what you do before you tell people the good news. After all, “take up your cross and follow me” is not good news unless you know the whole story.
D.A. Carson has written a helpful article on Acts 17 in which he outlines the need for explaining the “big story” of the Bible in our evangelism:
Paul at the Areopagus in Athens has established an entire frame of reference before he gets to Jesus. He has challenged the Greek worldview with his JudeoChristian worldview. If he had presented clichés like “Jesus died
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