Featured John R. Rice on lifestyle evangelism

No, rejected bcause that is not how Jesus operated!

 

No, heis givingto ue verses tat support our position ad against your link!

 

it is though, for how can they be saved unless they hear from us?

 

No.

HankD

 

Go back and read what I wrote evan, : "He will not use us" - He USES us as His instruments. He chooses those instruments that don't grieve Him.

HankD

 

Evan, you ask for advice then when it is given you are contrary.

Goodbye
HankD

 

Thanks for posting this. I'm glad you're reading it.

This is on p. 27 of the older edition I have. To be clear, JRR does say that living right is vital for the soul-winner. Here is what he wrote, "The fact is that living a godly life does not win sinners to Christ. That is not the way God has appointed to get sinners saved. Living a godly life is important, vitally important, for the one who would be a soul-winner, but the first condition of soul-winning, divinely appointed, is this: get up and go after sinners!"

At the time he wrote this (1941), there was no organized thinking about lifestyle evangelism. What he wrote about here was simply an excuse some Christians used to keep from going after sinners. He died in 1980, and the first book that I know of about it was Evangelism as a Lifestyle, by Jim Peterson, that very year. In 1981, Joseph Aldrich came out with his book, Life-Style Evangelism, and that's when the real controversy broke out, which I ran into in a supporting church on our first furlough, which was in 1986.

 

We won't know for sure what methods and instruments God used in gathering souls until after the harvest is over.

What we do know is that the Holy Spirit takes the initiative and uses both the word and human instruments

Acts 8
27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.
29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

Someone pointed him to the Isaiah passage.

HankD

 

It had been taught among Southern Baptists for much of the 1970s:

Baptist Press of June 8, 1973:

Baptist Press of April 29, 1975 reporting on C. B. Hogue, director of the evangelism section of the Home Mission Board, addressing the Brotherhood Leadership Conference:

Life-style Evangelism book by Hogue published by Word in 1976

 

Also:

Ralph W. Neighbour, Journey into Discipleship (Journey into Lifestyle Evangelism and Ministry series) (Memphis, Tenn.: Lay Renewal, 1974)

Ross Pilkinton, Life-style Evangelism: Sharing the Love of God in Continuing Relationships (London: Scripture Union, 1977)

Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker & Into the World: Evangelism As a Way of Life (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1979)

 

Thanks. I didn't know that.