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~ II you win take
the trouble TO so
70 Il and climb the embankment you
viii get a good drink. The eyangelistic
church is a reservoir of pure water
With a pipe to every heart in the com
munity and every nation in the world.
Evangelical may mean truth on Ice;
evangelistic means truth on fire.
Evangelical may mean bomb-proot
for defense: evangelistic means an
army on the march with every face
toward the foe.
Evangelical sings: Hold the fort.
for am coming" eyangelistic sings;
storm the fort. for God is leading
The need OF the church IS not evan
gclioalism as a thing 90 fight for, but
evangelism as force TO fight with.
The evangelical creed merely held
and defended becomes fossil, only
thing OF interest; but the evangelisuc
\ life which feeds upon evangelical
/ ruth Is force against which the
gates Of hell cannot prevail.
An evangelical may be q mere for
mallst and there Is no recognition Of
him Ia tho New Testament, except as
ho IS rebuked; but New Testament
evangelist IS a man full OF tho life OF
I God and making alive those TO whom
he ministers.
What Il Means.
IL IS certainly more than inducing a
person TO join the church. That 10 Inn
portant There are too many believers
d .tIst n
come an organic part Of any one.
They are spiritual pleasure seekers.
They are gospel tasters. They look
at the papers and go where the sub.
feet or the music seems most attrac-
tive. At best they are only bush
whackers" and ought somehow 70 be
pressed into the regular army. One
shall chase a thousand and two put
ten thousand 10 flight" that is. two
together are ten times stronger than
one alone. Organization multiphes
your influence by ten. You have no
right therefore, 70 remain outside the
organized church OF Christ But you
can ioin the church. be baptized and
nartake OF the lords supper without
being 4 Christian We may make our
churches 50 worldly IN spirit that
worldly people viii feel perfectly at
home as members OF them. They be-
come atherents, and adherents, YOU
know. are harnacles that help 20 sink
, the ship The real convert has be-
come "partaker OF the divine ma
, ture." e Peter 1;4) He has been
, born from above" John $3.50
You Must Accept.
Conviction OF sin. however. Is not
, enough, 'As many as received him,
20 them gave he the power TO become
, the sons OF God, even TO them that
believing on his name" John 1:2)
. There must be acceptance OF Jesus
, Christ. Even turning from sin is not
/. sufficient. God did not tell the bitten
2 lsraentes mercy 20 look away from
. the bite OF the serpent, but TO look 10
!. the serpent OF brass uplifted In The
\ camp. Reformation Is simply turn
!. from sin. regeneration is turning from
sln unto Christ Reformation Is white
washing: regeneration Is washing
: white. To reform IS to repain de
formed. 20 be born again by faith IN
/, the uplfted Jesus Is 20 take into our
! hearts the life that will make Christly
! character
/, You Must Have New Birth.
i Jesus said: Come ye after me and
!. viii make you TO became hshors 81
;. men" Now. e Is not our mission q
!. feed Ash. that Is, TO cultivate the nat
a urai man until he has so greatly i'm
A. Ia In
y Christian The fish that live In th'
n lower realm OF darkness. grub an'
a gravel must be transformed by thu
- new birth into sheep fitted for tn
a. higher realm OF landscape, sun ant
~ yky. The Babel process OF rcachinl
10 heaven Jy building IN from beneau
"A Is not the New Testament method
n. I'VE must be born from above" Georg
!, Whitfield preached over 800 time
from thls text. and. when asked VIII
- he had preached so often from g.
n same text he replied: because y
!. must be born again" Christ can ca
= ter the hearts of the vilest and max
= them sons Of God The need Of Oh
y, day Is a re-emphasis OF sudden. II
7, stantareous conversion. a crisis with
- view 70 a process Of growth.
!. The Secret Of Power.
- BACK Of real evangelism Ia q prayln
81 church. Back ~ thn reformation (
"A the sixteenth century were The "a
~. housed knoea OF fb1lp Melanethon an
IN tho neue orasse est bene atudiaas
fto have prayed well Is % have stu
- led welll Of Martin Luther Il ",
=. not The thunderbolt Of Luther's an
~ thema but the power OF perslstel
=. prayer that gave new sunrise
~ The church Of Christ. The habit
n. John Wesley was to rise for pray
~ and meditation every morning at fou
"A. There never was a genuine revlv
av OF Christianity which did not have I
roots In prayer.