Monday, July 7, 2008

Social Action & Evangelism

At church yesterday morning we were looking at the relationship between evangelism and social action. Central to clarifying the relationship was the idea that social action is part of our godliness. Godliness and evangelism don't compete, both are essential to the Christian life.

Then there were 5 main points about the relationship between social action and evangelism...

  1. Social action is not evangelism
  2. Social action may faciliate evangelism but not always
  3. Social action is not needed in order to justify evangelism
  4. Social action is not merely a means to an evangelistic end
  5. Evangelism will result in social action
Helpful stuff. More to follow at church, looking forward to it!

1 comment:

Stephen Baraniak said...

Bro,

Twas great stuff indeed. Really interested to hear how the series works out practically for you and for the life of the church.