How Shall They Hear? - church-based evangelism
By Peter Jeffery
Evangelical Press. 128 pages. £3.50
ISBN 0 85234 383 3
'This book is to help believers see their God-given responsibility to evangelise a lost world,' says the introduction; 'once our attitude is right we will see evangelism as a privilege and a joy.' Chapter one is worth reading for a first-class thumbnail of Acts.
Chapter two excites by beginning with the three essentials of evangelism: the good news, Christians to tell it and unbelievers to hear it. But frustratingly, it goes on to ignore the third leg! Subsequent chapters summarise what the good news is and how it operates. Chapter six looked as though its suggestions of pagan-friendly evangelistic activity might lead somewhere but they never really catch hold. The final third of the book is devoted almost entirely to a call to biblical preaching and preachers for whom preaching the gospel is 'a privilege and joy.'
