Evangelism

Learning from the Past

Michael Green

• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780802883438
• eBook ISBN: 9781467467001
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

Michael Green's valedictory work: a personal history of evangelism

Beyond his prolific academic career, Michael Green is fondly remembered for his commitment to sharing the gospel with everyone. His passion for evangelism, the heart of his life and work, shines through in  Evangelism: Learning from the Past, his last manuscript before his passing in 2019.

Green narrates how evangelists spread the good news, starting with first evangelist, Jesus, and his apostles. He then moves through the early church, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and Revival movements. The book culminates with Green's reflections on his own decades-spanning career in evangelism and how he adapted the timeless truths of the gospel amid the major cultural shifts of the twentieth century. Throughout the narrative, he focuses on what we can learn from evangelists through history to inform our own practice today. To this end, each chapter concludes with questions to encourage reflection.

Those who have been moved by Green's work will treasure this deeply personal final addition to his extensive oeuvre.  Evangelism: Learning from the Past will offer inspiration and encouragement to all evangelical Christians looking to revitalize and contextualize their work in proclaiming the good news to all.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by David M. Gustafson
• Introduction
• 1. Evangelism, Jesus Style
• 2. Evangelism in the New Testament Church
• 3. Evangelism in the Second to Fourth Centuries
• 4. Nominalism, Bishops, and Monasteries
• 5. Celtic Evangelism
• 6. Lights in the Darkness
• 7. The Reformation
• 8. The Evangelical Revival
• 9. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Initiatives
• 10. The Welsh Revival
• 11. Crusade Evangelism
• 12. My Sixty Years in Evangelism
• Afterword by Michael Ots