Evangelism Final Spring 24

Dr. Carter’s Final Exam

What is the Gospel?

Our sin, the Good News of Jesus’s life, death and resurrection, and the promise of forgiveness/eternal life

What are the 2 biblical-theological narratives + essentials for the gospel?

1. Personal Gospel on the Ground: God - Man - Christ - Response

2. Cosmic Gospel in the Air: Creation - Fall - Redemption (New Creation) - Restoration

Essentials: Sin, Christ, forgiveness/eternal life

What is Salvation?

Salvation is the process of delivering sinners from spiritual blindness, sin and condemnation; rescuing them from death; freeing them from Satan’s bondage, and giving them eternal life.

What are the “A’s” of Salvation Phases?

Antecedent: Election, Calling

Application: Regeneration, Justification, Adoption, Salvation: Faith and repentance

Advancement: Sanctification, Perseverance

Achievement: Glorification

List 7 misconceptions about evangelism

1. Lifestyle

2. Invitation to church

3. Winning at all costs

4. Praying for someone

5. Social media debates

6. Results

7. Spiritual conversations

What are the 3 simple aspects of what evangelism actually is?

1. Relying on the Holy Spirit’s power and presence

2. Telling unbelievers about Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection to overcome and pay for sin and death

3. Inviting the person to trust in Jesus and respond to God by turning away from their sin and following Him

How do divine sovereignty, human responsibility, and evangelism relate, according to Packer?

Antimony: The appearance of a necessary contradiction or paradox

1. The sovereignty of God in grace doesn’t affect the nature and duty of evangelism. (The belief that God is sovereign in grace does not affect the necessity, urgency, or genuineness/truth of evangelism)

2. The sovereignty of God in grace gives us our only hope of success in evangelism, which should make us bold, patient, and prayerful.

What are the 3 tools used to assess receptivity in gospel conversations?

Engle Scale, Rainer Scale, Queen Scheme

According to the “Queen Scheme”, what influences are at work in every gospel conversation?

On both believer and unbeliever,

• Spiritual activity

• Theological beliefs

• Personal history

• Cultural influences

List and describe the 6 aspects of gospel conversations

Pray - for the salvation of unbelievers, for opportunities to share the gospel

Prepare - removing personal and spiritual barriers (plus giving confidence), Prepare your heart and life, prep your presentation of the gospel with essentials, scriptures and instruction, have Gospel fluency and evangelistic fluency

Plan - (1) Set aside intentional times for evangelism. (2) Seek organic opportunities for evangelism. Frequency, duration, maintain urgency without intimidation or manipulation.

Proclaim - articulate the gospel of Jesus’s life, death and resurrection, respond with grace

Present - spiritual convo → transition to → gospel convo → gospel presentation → evangelistic invitation. The believer should have an opportunity to pray in confession of (1) sin and (2) Jesus’s lordship

Promote - if no, inquire aout further conversation possibilities; if yes, encourage immediate faithful obedience to Christ, discipleship

What is the role/purpose of a “transition statement”?

To help transition the convo from a spiritual one to an explicit gospel convo

What are 2 possible aspects to promotion (follow-up) in evangelism?

Further conversations about Christ, faithful obedience to Christ

Reproduce the 3 Circles Diagram

God’s Design - Genesis 1:31 and it was good

{Sin}

Brokenness - Romans 1:25 all have sinned

{repentance and belief}

Gospel - John 3:16 All can be saved by grace

{recover and pursue back to ^}

What are Rainer’s 5 U-Categories for assessing receptivity?

U5: Highly resistant to the gospel, antagonistic attitude

U4: Resistant to the gospel, but not antagonistic

U3: No apparent receptivity, neutral, perhaps open to discussion

U2: Receptive to the gospel and church

U1: Highly receptive to the gospel

What are Spurgeon’s “Qualifications for Soul-Winning?”

1. Holiness - living a pure life and fellowship with God

2. High degree of Spiritual Life - living a consistent spiritual life in public and in private

3. Humility - right posture of the heart to give glory to God

4. Sincerity, living faith - actually believing in God and His gospel

5. Earnestness - seriousness and urgency for the gospel

6. Selflessness, simplicity of heart - serving God for God’s sake, not personal profit

7. Complete surrender to God - yielded to God, sensitive to Him, influenced by Him in everything

8. Knowledge - familiarity with the things of God

9. Love - genuine concern, sympathy, compassion and approachability

List and describe 3 approaches to the “frequency” of evangelism.

Sporadic - Intermittent, infrequent, out of indifference to unbelievers or Christian bubble

Casual - relaced, nonchalant, gradual, progressive in small increments, out of the desire to build relationship and trust, fear? Lacks urgency

Intentional - Consistently, urgently, those who fail to plan time to practice obedient evangelism will fail to find time to be obedient in Evangelism.

List and describe the 2 approaches to the “duration” of evangelism

Immediate - intentional, evangelism at specific points in time, “Comprehensive-incarnational”, shares as much of the gospel as possible in one particular opportunity or setting

Ongoing/incremental - “Lifestyle approach” sustained evangelism with an unbeliever over a period of time, “relational-incarnation”, still intentional but prefers ongoing, interpersonal relationships in which to share the gospel over time.

The Sinner’s Prayer

Important to allow the sinner to pray in their own words to talk to God about their sin and their need for salvation.

• Scripted repetition may hide the unbeliever’s lack of full understanding

• Own words allows the believer to discern if the unbeliever truly does understand the gospel and its implications

Queen’s 3 Theological Motivations for Evangelism

1. Determinative Evangelistic Imposition - Hyper-Calvinism, God’s Elect is secret and mysterious, so a gospel invitation is unnecessary

2. Non-Specific Evangelistic Invitation - High Calvinism, focuses the invitation to look to Christ’s atonement in a general sense without specific declaration about the extent (everyone instead of you)

3. Impartial Evangelistic Invitation - Armenianism, rooted in the belief of universal atonement, invitation can be given to anyone on the basis of the extent of the atonement, free offer, “hypothetical universalism”

What is the best practice for evangelism among Muslims, according to Copeland?

What is the best practice for evangelism among Mormons, according to Kerns?

What is the best practice for evangelism among Catholics, according to Hernandez?