The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will.

If you say that the gospel lays a claim upon people, then you are invading their personal space, and they feel as though you have no right to be there. Now we don't even begin preaching the gospel until we get into their personal space and they feel the demands of God upon them.

Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with as many people as someone else who has special gifts from God.

I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.

Evangelism is not simply looking at someone and saying, "Look, you have to become a Christian". Instead, an evangelist tells us the truth about who God is, and explains where we stand as a result of that. People can ignore us - indeed, they have every legal right to do so.

What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.