What is the Great Commission?

[Don]

There are a number of additions to the original text that are indeed biblical, such as Mark 16:15 --but not penned by the author.

Point being, if you're gonna say that something's added, but it's biblical--prove it. Especially when it's germaine to the topic of the thread.

And my comments are primarily directed at evangelist. I'd like to see him actually support a statement, rather than just make one.

 

[evangelist6589]

Mark 6

Many here have ignored Mark 6. Anyways there is a book that I have called Evangelism in the NT written by Jon Speed. It compare an contrasts contact evangelism with friendship evangelism and finds contact is 86% of the evangelism done by Christ, and friendship only 13.5%. The book is loaded with scriptures, pie charts, tables, and others to persuade anyone.

I have read and own friendship evangelism books, but the question is, would a friendship evangelist read this book?

 

[evangelist6589]

Point being, if you're gonna say that something's added, but it's biblical--prove it. Especially when it's germaine to the topic of the thread.

And my comments are primarily directed at evangelist. I'd like to see him actually support a statement, rather than just make one.

Okay besides Mark 16:15 there are many other verses that support contact evangelism.

 

[blessedwife318]

So I'm going assume you don't take any money with you when you are evangelizing since you are saying you follow Mark 6 model. Also they did stay in peoples house which does require some relationship building since they were told to stay in the same house until they departed from that area. I also assume that you are casting out demons and healing the sick and see that as an important part of evangelizing since you are using Mark 6 as you support text.