Evangelism in the Early Church: Lessons from the First Christians for the Church Today (The Eerdmans Michael Green Collection)
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Overview
Now a modern classic, Michael Green’s Evangelism in the Early Church shows how the first Christians worked to spread the good news to the rest of the world.
Studying the New Testament and church fathers, Green explores the earliest methods, motives, and strategies of spreading the good news. He also considers the obstacles to evangelism, using outreach to Gentiles and to Jews as examples of differing contexts for proclamation. Thoroughly informed by primary sources, this book will help contemporary readers learn from the past and renew their own evangelistic vision.
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- Helps contemporary readers learn from the past and renew their own evangelistic vision
- Considers the obstacles to evangelism
- Explores the earliest methods, motives, and strategies of spreading the good news
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Pathways for Evangelism
- 2. Obstacles to Evangelism
- 3. The Evangel
- 4. Evangelizing the Jews
- 5. Evangelizing the Gentiles
- 6. Conversion
- 7. The Evangelists
- 8. Evangelistic Motives
- 9. Evangelistic Methods
- 10. Evangelistic Strategy
- Epilogue
This fascinating book will be read with profit all around the world. . . . It should be on every preacher’s desk and go abroad with every missionary. It will furnish abundant illustrations for sermons and give biblical and theoretical depth to the greatly needed and currently spreading stress on evangelism and church growth.
—Christianity Today
Vivid historical imagination and literary verve characterize Green's handling of a multitude of scholarly details. . . A capable and broadly based historical study of a subject that obviously has the greatest degree of relevance for the survival of the church today.
—Church History
Michael Green has made an immense contribution to our knowledge of evangelism. . . It has given me great personal encouragement.
—Billy Graham
- Title: Evangelism in the Early Church: Lessons from the First Christians for the Church Today
- Author: Michael Green
- Series: The Eerdmans Michael Green Collection
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Pages: 474
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Evangelistic work › History--Early church, ca. 30-600
- ISBNs: 9780802882530, 0802882536
- Resource ID: LLS:VNGLSMRLYCHRTDY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-07T16:50:04Z
Reviews
1 rating
Glenn Crouch
2/7/2024
When I read the first edition of this book, back when I was in my early 20s (around 1981/2), it sparked an interest in Early Church History that has remained with me to this day - some 40 years later. There is always a danger of coming back to a book that influenced you decades earlier - because you have grown and changed. While my first read was life changing, and I cannot say the same for the current read - nor was I expecting that. However, it was like visiting with an old friend. I thoroughly enjoyed the journey through this revised edition. As an author the late Michael Green still speaks well to me; and he continues to challenge me and encourage me. I would argue that this is still a good book to get to know the early church. While there are many fine history book, Green’s approach of looking at how Evangelism was done in the first few centuries, introduces most of the key characters - and hopefully the reader will be like me and want to find out more :) It would have been nice to have a “For Further Reading” section, but back when it was written (over 50 years ago) and when it was revised (20 years ago) there was not as many books as there are now - or at least the books today are easier to get.