Offer Them Life. Dan W. Dunn

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a life-then dimension.

      Some of the questions we should attend to in evangelistic theory and practice are:

      • In what ways are people seeking life today?

      • How much does their battle against death take away from their experience of full life?

      • If we assume that they are seeking life, do we make a corollary assumption that their daily experience is more akin to death?

      • If so, who or what are the “thieves” that are trying to steal and kill and destroy their lives (based on the language of John 10:10)?

      Christians, therefore, must continually discern ways of thinking about and practicing evangelism that honor the strong biblical theme that God wants God’s created humanity to experience life fully (abundantly, according to John 10:10), on this earth, prior to physical death.

      The prosperity gospel speaks to abundant living on this side of death; however, some of its proponents do so in biblically and theologically inappropriate ways. There is too much emphasis on financial well-being and too little emphasis on other dimensions of God-intended human fullness, such as servanthood, mutuality in helping other people thrive, and relational community. I will deal more fully with the prosperity gospel in a subsequent chapter.

      Second Perspective: Basing Evangelism on “Kingdom”

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