- what is happening around an event - this book for sure does this. Green covers such angles as evanglism to the gentiles (which is rich with very applicable things to our present day), evangelism to Jews, Motives/Methods/and Strategy of Evangelism, and more including a very interesting chapter on the Obsticles of evangelism. "Evangelism in the Early Church" by Michael Green has just been reissued, and no wonder. In a field that is usually as dry as sticks, Green is quite enthusiastic about his subject. Green makes many of the usuual points: "that probably no period in the history of the world was better suited to receive" (p 14) the gospel due to the ease of travel and the peace. That Greek was the common language, a huge advantage for the early church. And that the Jews had backed a winner in Julius Caesar, thus winning impressive privileges which the Christians initially took advantage of. But not for long. All too soon it was being argued that Christians "constituted a tertium genus, a third type of person in the world alongside Romans and Jews" (p 47). In fact, Christians were at a huge disadvantage when trying to convert the pagans. Christians were hated and persecuted. They were urged by their fellow Christians to give up everything that the other people around them most enjoyed--the games, the plays, the pagan festivals. It is a miracle that Christianity won. Green clearly admires the great love that so many of the early Christians