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NASB | 2 Timothy 2:15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 2:15 Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the word of truth. |
Bible Question: What is the best way to reach(or bring them to Christ) someone who does not take the Bible literaly? |
Bible Answer: Dear Theology PHD, None of the lost believe in the verbal plenary inspiration of Scripture. Lack of belief in what God has said is fundamental to their nature. Indeed, it is at the root of original sin! Furthermore, there is no single best way. God doesn't lead us to learn methods and rules. He didn't give us the great commission because He needed help. The purpose of missions is worship of the Father (John 4:20-24). He engages us in this activity (Matthew 28:18-20) that we might depend on Him. Consequently, the first thing to do is pray (1 Thessalonians 5:17). The second thing to do is to seek His grace to walk close to Him in the worship for which He has sought you out (Colossians 2:6). The third thing to do is to study Scriptures so that you will be able to give a cogent answer as to why you believe what you believe (1 Peter 3:15; 2 Timothy 2:15) -- like the verbal plenary inspiration of Scripture. Evangelism requires our sweat, even though it is fully a work of God. In Him, Doc "Let us arouse ourselves to the sternest fidelity, labouring to win souls as much as if it all depended wholly upon ourselves, while we fall back, in faith, upon the glorious fact that everything rests with the eternal God." --Charles H. Spurgeon "Evangelism and theology for the most part go separate ways, and the result is great loss for both. When theology is not held on course by the demands of evangelistic communcation, it grows abstract and speculative, wayward in method, theoretical in interest and irresponsible in stance. When evangelism is not fertilized, fed and controlled by theology, it becomes a stylized performance seeking its effect through manipulative skills rather than the power of vision and the force of truth. Both theology and evangelism are then, in one important sense, unreal, false to their own God-given nature; for all true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action." --James I. Packer "We must recognize the different types of persons, and we must learn to discriminate between them. There is nothing so pathetic or so unscriptural as a mechanical way of testifying to others. There are some Christians who are guilty of that. They witness and testify, but they do it in a thoroughly mechanical way. They never really consider the person with whom they are dealing; they never try to assess the person, or to discover exactly what his position is. They fail completely to implement this exhortation. They present the truth in exactly the same way to all and sundry. Quite apart from the fact that their testifying is generally quite useless, and that the only thing they achieve is a great feeling of self-righteousness, it is utterly unscriptural." --Martyn Lloyd-Jones "At the center of every culture is a cultus, a form of worship. Suffice it to say that the Great Commission requires us to disciple, baptize, and teach obedience to all the ethnoi, all the nations of men. This means that robust evangelism cannot be done without challenging the gods of the system. While we must not despise the day of small beginnings, and must labor faithfully in the little things, we must not be distracted from the ultimate mission and goal, getting diverted into picking off the devil's stragglers, and going off with them to build an isolated evangelical ghetto. Evangelism is combat between the gods, that is, between the living and triune God of the Bible and the idols of the age. Evangelism is therefore religious war at the highest level." --Douglas Wilson |
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