Thread: How important is being friendly in evangelism?
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Old 05-22-2008, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by BobVigneault View Post
I believe that winsomeness is absolutely crucial to evangelism and it's biblical. Let's not confuse evangelism with apologetics. Sometimes defending the faith is part of proclaiming the gospel but most times we are tearing down strongholds.

So with evangelism we should be friendly, in defending the faith, not so much.
An exceedingly useful distinction - even if made by a cartoon
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