In Depth:  Bob Horn

Every believer wants to know all that can be known about God and to live in the light of all the truth God has revealed about himself.

This is why he/she reads the Bible, the only source of the true knowledge of God.

Here is an extract from the Letter to the Romans:

'For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness . . .'.

But how does Paul go on from there?

'Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced, and the whole world held accountable to God . . . But now the love of God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This love of God comes to all through Jesus Christ. For there is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are accepted freely by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice as a sign of his love, to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his love and his divine forbearance. He did it to demonstrate his love to all at the present time' (Romans 1.18; 3.19, 21-26).

In the week that I came to write this, I heard of five conversions. Two were teenagers, brought to trust in Christ through the youth tracks at Word Alive. Another was a student with no Christian background who, seven months before, was given a copy of John's Gospel by a friend. When he eventually read it, he emailed his friend: 'I've read it... I believe it!' The others were a couple in their early 40s, the husband converted (out of considerable opposition) six months before his wife.

This is great news. The title's question assumes that we know what evangelism is and focuses on how we do it, in particular on where to start. The assumption should be true for evangelicals, who are, above all, people of the gospel, the message. So how do we start to convey that message?

The Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (the CICCU) reached its 125th anniversary on March 9. Bob Horn, EN's former editor and recently retired as UCCF's General Secretary, was asked to speak on that occasion.

I owe a huge personal debt to God for the CICCU. Before I started at Cambridge, I was a Christian, but only half-committed and very uncertain whether I would stand for Christ.

This spring has seen an evangelistic initiative by Christian Unions on many campuses to reach out with the message of Christ using Mark's Gospel. Bob Horn of the Universities & Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) reports. . .

He was a philosophy student and he had never read any part of the Bible. Then a Christian friend gave him a copy of Mark's Gospel during the Christian Union's mission last term.

Chris had absolutely zero Christianity in his background. His parents never went to church and nor did he.

He could not remember coming across a Christian until he joined a new company when he was 24. Two of the eight others in his division were Christians. He noticed that they did not merely go to church, but lived out their Christianity too.