Christianity’s Crisis in Evangelism: Going Where the People Are

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Christianity’s Crisis in Evangelism: Going Where the People Are. By Linda Raney Wright. Graham, OR: Vision House Publishing, 1995. 185 pp. Cloth, $14.99. This is an intensely practical discussion of reaching the lost in our day, written by a woman who is obviously an active soul-winner herself. This author is concerned—rightly it appears—with what she
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Chaos at Camp

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by Steve Elkins It was a week-long high school evangelistic camp—four hundred kids from all parts of the country. At the nightly counselors’ meeting one of the youth ministers questioned the speaker. “I don’t understand. Two nights ago my kids were sure they were Christians, now they’re not sure. I went over what you said
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Obedience to the Faith – Romans 1:5

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When I was six years old my parents enrolled me in a religious boys club. We played football, basketball, and baseball each weekend. One day each week after school we would meet for practice and for our “club meeting.” At the meeting we would receive religious instruction. I was taught that in order to be
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The Lord Opened Her Heart – Acts 16:14

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The Issue: God’s Part and Our Part in Salvation What is God’s part and what is our part in salvation? There are few more difficult subjects than this one. One extreme is to so emphasize God’s sovereignty as to totally eliminate any human role in salvation at all. Reformed theology does this. It suggests that
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The Faith of Demons: James 2:19

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JOHN F. HART Professor of Bible Moody Bible Institute Chicago, IL I. Introduction Informed Christians are aware of the ongoing debate in modern evangelicalism concerning the content of the Gospel and the nature of faith. In the heat of the discussion, it’s inevitable that the Pauline doctrine of justification by faith alone will not be
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