{"id":478,"date":"2009-05-27T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2013-06-21T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T18:25:48","slug":"self-reliant-high-pressure-evangelism-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Self-reliant, High-Pressure Evangelism Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If you have read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1581348460?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1581348460\">Mark Dever&#8217;s good little book on evangelism<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"qlylavcfogvqobwuuazr\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1581348460\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, then you have seen an excerpt from C. S. Lovett&#8217;s Evangelism Made Easy used to illustrate the overly pragmatic approach to evangelism which relies on psychological pressure and aims simply at &#8220;decisions.&#8221;\u009d Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/archives\/general-news\/frivolity\/soul-winning-made-easy.php\">Tim Challies has more quotes along with the illustrations from Lovett&#8217;s book<\/a>. You can&#8217;t spoof stuff like this! Check this out and be reminded why our thoughts of evangelism have been skewed so.<\/p>\n<p>May this urge us on in proper evangelism, where we &#8220;renounce disgraceful and underhanded ways, &#8230; refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God&#8217;s word, but by open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone&#8217;s conscience in the sight of God&#8221;\u009d (2 Cor 4:2-3).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have read Mark Dever&#8217;s good little book on evangelism, then you have seen an excerpt from C. S. Lovett&#8217;s Evangelism Made Easy used to illustrate the overly pragmatic approach to evangelism which relies on psychological pressure and aims simply at &#8220;decisions.&#8221;\u009d Now Tim Challies has more quotes along with the illustrations from Lovett&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Self-reliant, High-Pressure Evangelism Illustrated&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\/478"}],"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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}