Perché non dovresti evangelizzare come un professionista

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Al seminario mi è stata insegnata l’evangelizzazione da un teologo molto famoso e da un evangelista professionista. Nessuno dei due fu molto chiaro su ciò che una persona doveva fare per essere salvata per sempre. L’altro giorno, Sam Marr, che lavora con GES dallo scorso Ottobre, mi ha mostrato un articolo di una rivista sull’evangelizzazione.
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Did You Know That in the New Testament, Perishing Rarely Refers to Eternal Condemnation? 

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In my book The Ten Most Misunderstood Words in the Bible, I discuss the word lost, from the Greek word apollumi. The NKJV translates it as lost thirteen times. However, it is translated as perish more than twice as often (twenty-nine times) and is translated as destroy/destroyed twice as often (twenty-six times). Other translations include ruined–three times, lose–fourteen times, and die–once.  In Ten Words, I demonstrated that apollumi refers to eternal condemnation only 10% of the time. However, I was speaking of 10% of
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Czy fragment z Ewangelii wg Jana 6:37 naucza o wybraniu do życia wiecznego?

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Tom zadał następujące pytanie: Kalwinista zacytował fragment z Ewangelii wg Jana 6:37, który mówi: „Wszystko, co mi daje Ojciec, do mnie przyjdzie i przychodzącego do mnie nie wyrzucę na zewnątrz”, aby argumentować na rzecz wyboru do życia wiecznego. Jak mam odpowiedzieć? Przyjście do Jezusa w Ewangelii Jana – w tym w rozdziale 6 (zobacz werset 35,
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Does the Third Soil in Luke 8:14 Represent Persevering Believers? 

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I’ve been interacting with a friend about who the third soil in Luke 8:14 represents.  We both agree that it represents believers.   But we disagree on whether the believers in view represent believers who persevere or believers who fail to endure.   My friend thinks that the third soil represents believers who lay up treasure in heaven
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Seven Reasons Why We Cannot Be Saved By Opening the Door to Our Life— Revelation 3:20 Reconsidered

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I was surprised. I went on YouTube looking for videos that presented Rev 3:20 as an evangelistic verse. Many, if not most, of the videos said it wasn’t an evangelistic verse.   Then I went online looking for articles suggesting that Rev 3:20 is an invitation to everlasting life. Again, most of the articles indicated that
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Care este roada Duhului?

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Expresia roada [karpos, la singular în ambele cazuri] Duhului apare doar de două ori în Biblie: în Galateni 5:22 și în Efeseni 5:9. Alte expresii similare sunt: roada pașnică [karpon, singular] a neprihănirii (Evrei 12:11), roada [karpos] neprihănirii (Iacov 3:18), roadele [karpōn, plural de karpos, în TM; singular în TC] neprihănirii (Filipeni 1:11), roadele sau secerișul [genēmata, plural de genēma] neprihănirii
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Što je plod Duha?

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Izraz plod [karpos, jednina na oba mjesta] Duha pojavljuje se samo dvaput u Bibliji – u Gal 5,22 i Ef 5,9. Drugi slični izrazi su: mironosni plod [karpon, jednina] pravednosti (Hebrejima 12,11), plod [karpos] pravednosti (Jak 3,18), plodovi [karpōn, množina od karpos, u MT, jednina u CT] pravednosti (Filipljanima 1:11), plodovi ili žetva [genēmata, množina
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Was Paul Talking about Sanctification When He Wrote about Salvation in 1 Corinthians? 

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Paul uses the word save (sōzō) nine times in 1 Corinthians (1:18, 21; 3:15; 5:5; 7:16 twice; 9:22; 10:33; 15:2). He does not use the noun salvation (sōtēria) at all in the epistle. Commentators are not in agreement as to what save means in 3:15; 5:5; and 15:2. I believe, along with some commentators, that
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