is somewhat surprising that the New Testament contains relatively few exhortations for ordinary believers to speak the gospel to others. Scholars and missiologists have debated the reasons for this. One possible answer lies in the reality that the gospel was advancing irresistibly from one region to another, powerfully breaking into first-century society, saving individuals and forming communities of Christ. The first believers were inevitably caught up in this dynamic, Spirit-inspired movement and could not have avoided ‘evangelism’, even if they had wanted to. If you stuck your head up as a
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