EVANGELISM — ONE STEP AT A TIME
E. Stanley Jones, the great evangelist and missionary to India, tells about a Chinese engineer. “He sat down with me and abruptly said: ‘What are you going to do with me? I am a man without any religion. The old is dead and I haven’t anything new to take its place. In Americano church would take me, for I cannot believe in the divinity of Christ.’ I could almost see him inwardly stiffen to meet my arguments to prove Christ divine. So I used none. Instead I asked; ‘What do you believe? How far along are you?’ ‘Well’ he said, ‘I can believe that Christ was the best of men.’ I said, ‘Then let us begin where you can. If He is the best ofmen, then He is your ideal. Are you prepared to act according to that ideal? To cut out of your life everything that Christ would not approve?’ ‘If I’m honest, then I must.…
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