Holistic Thinking and the Priority of Evangelism

The Christian church is notorious for its pendulum shifts. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, liberals began to emphasise the humanness of Christ. They focused on presenting the life of Christ and its example as the main challenges of the gospel. Evangelicals reacted by emphasising the atoning work of Christ (especially as explained by Paul) in their evangelism, almost to the exclusion of the life of Christ. The result was that the liberals concentrated on good deeds, especially expressed in social concern, and the Evangelicals on saving souls as the main feature of Christian mission… 

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