According to The Complete Evangelism Guidebook: Expert Advice on Reaching Others for Christ, Colin Harbinson, in his chapter “Arts: The Role of Creativity in the Expression of Truth,” contends that “approximately 75 percent of Scripture consists of narrative, 15 percent is expressed in poetic form, and only 10 percent is propositional and overtly instructional in [...]

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In his book on preaching, Calvin Miller begins by emphasizing the genre of the scriptures. “The Bible begins with those primeval once-upon-a-time words bereshith bara elohim: ‘In the beginning God created.’ From that point on, for some thirteen hundred pages, the story unfolds till it reaches that simple Greek happy ever after amēn, [...]

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As one attempts to relate the gospel to postmoderns, contextualization is of the utmost importance. Already discussed are the many variables that influence a person’s worldview, and the one constant is postmodernism in the form of pluralism and relativism. Each individual must be approached differently, and any communication must be fluid. If [...]

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Lesslie Newbigin, former English missionary to India, and author of Foolishness to the Greeks: the Gospel and Western Culture, explains that modern scientific thought and reason has shifted the scriptures from a sacred text to classical literature. [1] The Bible is subjected to contemporary scientific understanding and architectural evidence. Eddie Gibbs and [...]

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