Ten Questions to Ask to Turn a Conversation Toward the Gospel, By Donald S. Whitney - Donald S. Whitney
Many Christians suffer with unnecessary fears about sharing their faith. Once they finally get a conversation turned to the subject of the Gospel, however, most believers find that they're able to manage quite well. Much of the time the biggest problem is simply moving a conversation from small talk to "big" talk, the biggest subject of all—the Gospel. Here's a list of questions that can help. - More

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: How Charles Finney's Theology Ravaged the Evangelical Movement - Phil Johnson
IT IS IRONIC that Charles Grandison Finney has become a poster boy for so many modern evangelicals. His theology was far from evangelical. As a Christian leader, he was hardly the model of humility or spirituality. Even Finney's autobiography paints a questionable character. In his own retelling of his life's story, Finney comes across as stubborn, arrogant—and sometimes even a bit devious - More

The Altar Call: Is It Harmful or Helpful? - Fred G. Zaspel
It would be all but impossible to give an accurate description of the modern evangelical church without mention of the invitation system, or the "altar call," as it is called. The altar call is a custom in virtually all Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Wesleyan, Pentecostal, and Charismatic circles. - More

The Sovereignty of God and Prayer - John Piper
I am often asked, "If you believe God works all things according to the counsel of his will (Ephesians 1:11) and that his knowledge of all things past, present, and future is infallible, then what is the point of praying that anything happen?" - More

Hyper-Evangelism: Another Gospel, Though a Mighty Power - John Kennedy
The essay here reprinted appeared in 1874 in the wake of an evangelistic campaign by Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey, whose 1873 tour wrought a revolution of sentiment in Scotland. - More

Advice to the Inquiring Sinner - W.G.T. Shedd
It is not right or safe to depart from the method prescribed in the Scriptures for an anxious soul to take in order to salvation. Even a slight deviation, however well intended, works mischief. - More

Evangelism and Apologetics - Stephen C. Perks
In Ephesians 4:11-14 we are told that Christ has instituted certain ministries in His church for the equipping of His people for the work of service, and in order that the church might be built up and that we might grow in faith and in our understanding of the faith, so that the body of Christ might mature into the image of Christ. One of these ministries is that of the evangelist. - More

A Word to the Anxious - Kenneth MacRae
This tract is for the anxious. Others probably will scarcely trouble to read it. Those who have no anxiety as to what is to become of their souls are not likely to find much of interest in it. But the Lord may see fit to bless it to the anxious, awakened soul. That He would do so is the humble prayer of the writer. - More

The Doctrines of Grace and Passion for the Souls of Men - John A. Broadus
Concern for the salvation of others is not prevented by a belief in what we call the doctrines of grace; is not prevented by believing in divine sovereignty, and predestination and election. - More

The Gospel and Evangelicalism: An Assessment - William Webster
Having examined the gospel of the Scriptures, the teaching of Jesus, and the position of the Reformers and Reformed theologians on the application and appropriation of salvation, some serious concerns must be raised about the gospel which is being presented by some evangelicals in our day.Having examined the gospel of the Scriptures, the teaching of Jesus, and the position of the Reformers and Reformed theologians on the application and appropriation of salvation, some serious concerns must be raised about the gospel which is being presented by some evangelicals in our day. - More

Another Gospel - John Cheesman
It is my contention that there is a real and basic difference between the biblical gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the prevailing manmade substitute. - More

The Wrath of God - W. J. Grier
One of the evidences of decay and departure in the professing Church is the large-scale rejection of the teaching of the Scriptures on the wrath of God. - More

The Choice: Man's or God's? - Unknown
You cannot bring men back to God unless that way of their salvation begins with God. Humanism always ends where it starts, namely, with man. - More

Adding to the Church: During the Eary American Period - Richard J. Bauckham
FOR the purpose of this paper, the ‘early American period’ is intended to cover the New England colonies from c. 1630 to c. 1660. - More

Add to the Church: The Puritan Approach to Persuading Souls - Erroll Hulse
Ours is a time of great emphasis on evangelism when world congresses are convened to talk about evangelization. And so we ask whether or not the Puritans were evangelistic in their preaching? - More

A Gospel Summary - Jeffrey C. Nesbitt
This is a reply to the question often asked, “What should we include in our Gospel presentation?” What follows is only a summary and the bare minimum that should be included in the whole Gospel. - More

What is it to Preach the Gospel? - Henry Mahan
What is it to preach the gospel? Is everybody preaching the gospel? No! Is everybody who claims to preach the gospel preaching the gospel? No! What is it to preach the gospel? - More

Co-operation in Evangelism - John Murray
The question with which we are concerned in this article is whether evangelicals may properly co-operate with modernists in the actual conduct of evangelism. - More

Maintaining Prayer for the World-Wide Outreach of the Gospel - S.M. Houghton
It has been said that there are three kinds of missionaries—the go-missionaries (who respond to a divine call), the co-missionaries (who stay at home and help by prayerful interest and, where possible, practical aid), and the o-missionaries (who lack interest in the work of mission). - More

God's Way: Vision, Compassion and Prayer - Paul Bassett
One of the greatest needs of the church today is to see the world as God sees it, through God’s eyes and not our own. As long as we view it only through our naked eyes we will only see it naturally and not spiritually, and our solution to the world’s plight will accordingly be merely human. - More

Every Christian a Publisher - Earnest C. Reisinger
I would like to speak to you today about the importance of the use of literature in the church, for evangelism, for instruction in Christian truth, for devotion, and for its role in planting churches. - More

Compassion for the Lost - Charles Bridges
If the Lord teaches us the privileges of his statutes, he will teach us compassion for those who keep them not. This was the mind of Jesus. His life exhibited one, whose “heart was made of tenderness.” - More

The Evangelism - What is it? - Earnest C. Reisinger
Evangelism is the communication of a divinely inspired message that we call the gospel. It is a message that is definable in words, but must be communicated in word and power. “For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance…” (1 Thess. 1:5). - More

Gospel Preaching Commanded - Arthur W. Pink
Christ’s word, and it is Christ’s Word to us, is “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel.” He does not say “Send ye.” He says “Go ye,” and you have to answer to Christ yet because you have not gone! - More

Evangelism and the Reformed Faith - David J. Engelsma
Strange to say, some suppose that the relationship between the Reformed Faith and evangelism is uneasy and uncomfortable. Stranger still, some charge that the Reformed Faith and evangelism are incompatible. Many outside of the Reformed Churches contend that the Reformed Faith makes evangelism (or "soul-winning," as they like to call it) impossible. - More

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Jonathan Edwards
In Deut. 32:35 is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God's visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God's wonderful works towards them, remained (as ver. 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding in them. - More

An Account of the Revival of Religion in Northampton in 1740 - 1742 - Jonathan Edwards
Evidently intended for publication, this letter was entitled "The State of Religion at Northampton in the County of Hampshire, About 100 Miles Westward of Boston". It was published in The Christian History, I (Jan. 14, 21, 28, 1743), and also in Dwight's, Life of President Edwards - More

A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God - Section III - Jonathan Edwards
But to give a clear idea of the nature and manner of the operation of God's Spirit, in this wonderful effusion if it, I would give an account of two particular instances. - More

A Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God - Section II - Jonathan Edwards
I therefore proceed to give an account of the manner of persons being wrought upon; and here there is a vast variety, perhaps as manifold as the subjects of the operation; but yet in many things there is a great analogy in all. - More

A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God - Section I - Jonathan Edwards
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God is Jonathan Edwards' own account of the mighty way in which God moved among the people of Northampton, Massachusetts and other nearby communities in the early stages of what has become known as The Great Awakening. There is much to be learned from Edwards regarding the nature of true conversion and how God's Spirit works in awakening and converting sinners. - More