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Montague Goodman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thousands of men are honorably engaged mainly in their leisure hours in
\nteaching and preaching Christ. Yet it is probably true to say that the number of
\nevangelists is lamentably few, and as a direct consequence our churches and fellowships
\nlanguish. If we are to covet earnestly the best gifts, then surely there is a call in
\nthese days for young men to covet, with a holy ambition, that rare yet greatly desirable
\ngift of the evangelist. What, then, are the outstanding, and in some part, unique marks
\nand indications of the gift of an evangelist?
\n<\/p>\n

An evangelist must have a consuming passion for the souls of men<\/strong>. A
\npreacher who will not evangelize except with a view to the creation or upbuilding of a
\nchurch may be right in his ambition and admirable in his objective, but he has not the
\nessential quality of an evangelist. The Apostle Paul had the evangelist?s heart when
\nhe said of those who preached Christ of contention and envy and strife: “What, then?
\nnotwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I
\ntherein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice” (Phil. 1:18). His great yearning desire
\nwas that Christ should be preached. “Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel”
\n(1 Cor. 9:16)! The evangelist must long for souls. He must weep over them. He must spend
\nhimself to the utmost for them.<\/p>\n

The evangelist must be a man of one theme and that of the Gospel.<\/strong>
\nThe true evangelist is a man of one message. He must say with Paul: “I determined not
\nto know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). This
\ndoes not mean on the one hand that he should confine himself to a few Gospel texts and
\nillustrations variously applied such as too often constitute the stock-in-trade of the
\ntravelling evangelist. It is one thing to preach about the Gospel and quite another to
\npreach the Gospel. It is his province to proclaim it rather than to expound it. It is his
\ngift to make the tidings appear to his hearers good tidings indeed “worthy of all
\nacceptation” rather than good doctrine worthy of their intellectual approval.<\/p>\n

The evangelist is essentially a winner of souls<\/strong>. It is this that
\ndifferentiates him from a preacher or teacher. Not that these latter may not have the joy
\nof seeing men saved under their faithful ministry, but it is the essential quality of the
\nevangelist that he is a soul winner. His message convicts men by the power of the Spirit.
\nPhilip, the evangelist, pointed the eunuch to Christ, then baptized him and then, his work
\naccomplished, “the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip and the eunuch saw him no
\nmore” (Acts 8:39).<\/p>\n

The evangelist is a bold and fearless preacher of Christ without
\napology or concession to modern opinion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today we are faced with a far more educated population of men and women
\nimpressed from their youth with views concerning the unreliability of the Scriptures and
\nthe decadence of the Christian religion that make the work of the evangelist one of
\nunprecedented difficulty. It is almost axiomatic today to say that the public is not
\ninterested in Gospel meetings or missions and does not attend them. People are not usually
\nactively hostile to the message but totally uninterested.<\/p>\n

The departure of the intelligentsia among men from faith in the
\nrevealed word of God has landed the world in a condition of unprecedented chaos, and it is
\nhigh time that present day pseudo-scientific apologetics gave place to a return to the
\n“Thus saith the Lord” of the old prophetic preachers. “Faith cometh by
\nhearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom. 10:17). If men of conviction and
\ndetermination would dare to proclaim the everlasting Gospel on the basis of its being not
\nPauline theology but the message of the living God, and if that testimony had the backing
\nof a host of believers prepared to proclaim their faith in it at the cost of personal
\nreproach, then I am convinced that what all the Gospel campaigns in the world will never
\nachieve would be brought to pass and that in a surprisingly short space of time.<\/p>\n

Evangelism is the redistribution of spiritual wealth. ?<\/em>John Blanchard<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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