EVANGELISM IN A SKEPTICAL WORLD
How to make the unbelievable news about
Jesus more believable
By Sam Chan
Zondervan. 288 pages. £10.99
ISBN 978 0 310 534 716
We must adapt our traditional approaches to evangelism to methods more suited to our contemporary culture.
This book gives some practical help in how we might do that. Chan says we need to engage with people’s interests and values in our conversations, starting with testimonies rather than theological propositions. The Western world has moved from seeing sin in terms of guilt, to thinking in terms of shame or defilement, as many do in the East. Next, Chan assesses the strengths and weaknesses of some of our traditional gospel presentations. In seeking to reach Postmoderns, we are advised to use hospitality, stories and creative art, rather than only logic and argument.
