Do We Need to Defend the Bible?

[John of Japan]

No highjacking intended, just want Van to stop doing his grenade tossing on the Board

News flash: You don't have to respond!! You even put him on "Ignore."

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Excellent! My church will be letting the Lion out of His cage in the near future. We are proposing to call on every house in our area and give a portion of Scripture (Luke's Gospel) to each one. A recent survey of new Christians in the UK found that reading the Bible was, along with being invited to church, the primary way that they had come to the Lord.

And your goal is to do what? I always assumed that the Holy Spirit convinced people to come to the lord. Was I mistaken?

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Not sure what you mean by this in regards to the OP.

Forget it… I was trying to formulate something and it didn’t materialize.

 

[Martin Marprelate]

And your goal is to do what? I always assumed that the Holy Spirit convinced people to come to the lord. Was I mistaken?

Our goal is to obey the Great Commission. "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go THEREFORE and make disciples of all the nations......" It is precisely because God is sovereign, and the Holy Spirit convinces people to come to the Lord that we are to go. See Luke 24:46-47; Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8. Because so many of the churches in Britain have not been doing their job of evangelizing the lost, huge numbers of people here, especially the young, have no knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and as a result they are anxious, depressed, self-harming, and without hope. We need to obey our Lord's command and reach out.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Our goal is to obey the Great Commission. "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go THEREFORE and make disciples of all the nations......" It is precisely because God is sovereign, and the Holy Spirit convinces people to come to the Lord that we are to go. See Luke 24:46-47; Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8. Because so many of the churches in Britain have not been doing their job of evangelizing the lost, huge numbers of people here, especially the young, have no knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and as a result they are anxious, depressed, self-harming, and without hope. We need to obey our Lord's command and reach out.

The USA is not far behind you… but why the gospel of Luke and not John? Isn’t John the Love Gospel?

In my boyhood and without a father, the church clergymen visited our home and helped with food etc. But if someone was not active in our lives well ya know. It takes a comment to get peoples attention… not dogma… and kids see that.