### speech:

Evangelism
* Most evangelism is done on foot, or by bicycle.
* always requires the signs of truthfulness of the evangelist.
* are sermon.
* begins by cultivating friendships with spiritually lost individuals
  - with prayer
* belongs outside of the church, and edification belongs inside the church.
* calls for patience.
* comes in many forms
  - naturally from a body of faithful, devoted, committed and worshipping disciples
* continuous process.
* explicitly confronts people with a dramatic call to have faith now, at once.
* flows out of cell life.
* goes to the core of a church's culture and identity.
* has to do with orthodoxy and orthopraxis
  - very little to do with deciding to grow
* holds forth the carrot.
* involves a strategy of both saturation and penetration
  - honest concern for others
* is an essential component of a virus of the mind
  - integral part of the Christian way
  - another area in which misguided zeal can wreak havoc
  - built upon truth statements
  - central to social change
  - concerned primarily with the proclamation of the gospel
  - effected through open-air meetings led by teams of evangelists and church choirs
  - intentional
  - just one beggar telling another beggar where to find food
  - much more that methods of member recruitment or church expansion
* is one beggar telling another where they can both find bread
  - to find bread
  - to get bread
  - ongoing as both children and adults receive instruction in the faith
  - our only right to existence
  - primarily a process
  - relational
  - simply the telling of the good news to the world
  - so often a process rather than an event
  - something that every member of a congregation can do
* is the act of bringing good news to an individual
  - spreading good news
  - announcement or proclamation of the good news
  - effective communication of the gospel to unbelievers
  - goal of the apostolic church
  - great priestly work of the Christian church
  - lifeline, the blood and the heart of the word
  - natural outgrowth and overflow of a church that has a vital and dynamic in-reach
  - primary work of the church
  - process of communicating the gospel
  - proclamation and demonstration of the good news
  - spoils of prayer
  - work of telling the good news
  - theology in practice
  - what the church does because it is the church
* is, literally, proclaiming good news.
* job for everyone.
* marks the beginning of the Christian life.
* matter of caring
  - life and death
* means inviting individuals into community
  - obedience
* often focuses on numbers like business focuses on sales.
* refers to good news-derived from the Greek evangelion.
* relies on love.
* species of communication
  - witnessing
* spreads where deeds of love and service have been performed.
* starts with prayer.
* takes place in all aspects of everyday life
  - when the evangelized become the evangelists
* usually occurs, unlike formal dialogue and debate, in informal circumstances.
* very personal activity, and most people have their own favorite tested methods.
* way of life.

### speech | evangelism:

Lifestyle evangelism
* is something anyone can do.
* starts with a relationship between people.

External speech
* is the process of turning thought into words.
+ Lev Vygotsky, 'Thought and Language': Psychologists :: Russian scientists
  * Inner speech is not comparable in form to external speech. External speech is the process of turning thought into words. Inner speech, for example, contains predicates only. Subjects are superfluous. Words are also used much more economically. One word in inner speech would take many words to express it in external speech.

Hate speech
* crime in Canada.
* invokes physical degradation of other people.
* is illegal
  - protected by the first amendment in the United States
  - very similar to pornography
* legal term.