Evangelical Truth: A Personal Plea for Unity, Integrity & Faithfulness by John Stott

Author:John Stott [Stott, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian, Evangelism, Ecclesiology, General, Christian Theology, Christian Ministry, Ethics
ISBN: 9780830833030
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Amazon: 083083303X
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Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Christian mission

Mission has always been an evangelical preoccupation, not least the worldwide mission of the church. Evangelicalism and evangelism, as the words themselves indicate, are inevitably interlocked. And one of our evangelical emphases in evangelism is that the Holy Spirit is the chief evangelist. He is a missionary Spirit, and Pentecost was a missionary event.

John V. Taylor, when he was Bishop of Winchester, began his book about the Holy Spirit (entitled The Go-Between God) with these words: ‘The chief actor in the historic mission of the Christian church is the Holy Spirit. He is the director of the whole enterprise.’17

Then the Manila Manifesto, produced during the Second International Congress on World Evangelization in 1989, included this paragraph headed ‘God the Evangelist’:

The Scriptures declare that God himself is the chief evangelist. For the Spirit of God is the Spirit of truth, love, holiness and power, and evangelism is impossible without him. It is he who anoints the messenger, confirms the word, prepares the hearer, convicts the sinful, enlightens the blind, gives life to the dead, enables us to repent and believe, unites us to the body of Christ, assures us that we are God’s children, leads us into Christ-like character and service, and sends us out in our turn to be Christ’s witnesses. In all this the Holy Spirit’s main preoccupation is to glorify Jesus Christ by showing him to us and forming him in us.18

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