{"id":285,"date":"2007-09-16T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2013-06-27T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:22:45","slug":"dever%e2%80%99s-new-evangelism-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Dever&#8217;s New Evangelism Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/Ru39loYVqQI\/AAAAAAAAAJ4\/23CZuL5F2Nw\/s1600-h\/gospel+%26+personal+evangelism.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111019975071869186\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/Ru39loYVqQI\/AAAAAAAAAJ4\/23CZuL5F2Nw\/s200\/gospel+%26+personal+evangelism.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Just yesterday I in the mail came my copy of Mark Dever&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGospel-Personal-Evangelism-Mark-Dever%2Fdp%2F1581348460%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1190001548%26sr%3D11-1&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">The Gospel &amp; Personal Evangelism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"swgwboykwavboxrscnkx\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> (Crossway; pb., 124 pp.). I am about a third of the way through it now and it is really good. Dever states clearly his purpose:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My prayer is that because of the time you spend reading this book, more people will hear the good news of Jesus Christ&#8221;\u009d (16).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a good, succinct discussion of the task of evangelism and a clear, strong, humble exhortation to get to it from a fellow pastor who has worked at being more faithful and intentional in this important task. He closes with &#8220;A Word to Pastors.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This is really helpful book.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Amazon says this book is not yet available but it is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/product\/9781581348460\">Crossway<\/a>. It should be available at Amazon any day.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday I in the mail came my copy of Mark Dever&#8217;s new book, The Gospel &amp; Personal Evangelism (Crossway; pb., 124 pp.). I am about a third of the way through it now and it is really good. Dever states clearly his purpose: &#8220;My prayer is that because of the time you spend reading &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Dever&#8217;s New Evangelism Book&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}