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Originally Posted by larryjf  I am going to be starting a small group on Evangelism.
Any experience or thoughts on The Way of the Master? It has endorsements from folks like James Kennedy so i can't see it being too far out in left field. |
If the materials you'd use in presenting this method are those that are on their website (
www.wayofthemaster.com) then you'll have a lot of "correcting" to do. That is, Kirk Cameron in every clip I've seen presents the Gospel as "God loves you and doesn't want you to go to Hell", etc. Granted, this method from what I know does involve repentance as part of the message...and I like *some* of the things that Cameron says are laudable, but every time he comes to the close of his presentation, he launches into completely Arminian theology of atonement. I also haven't poked around enough to know how much futurist eschatology plays a role, but I know that's the position that Kirk Cameron has publicly embraced...
The elements that are good in this are common to Evangelism Explosion, for instance. I don't know much about EE, but maybe that's better.
I know it's helpful to have prepared materials for teaching evangelism... it at least gives people a start for their own understanding of a method - but stuff like this is completely divorced from the teaching ministry of the church, and that's a concern for me. I'm c