Evangelism and theology for the
most part go separate ways, and the result is great loss for both. When
theology is not held on course by the demands of evangelistic communication, it
grows abstract and speculative, wayward in method, theoretical in interest and
irresponsible in stance. When evangelism is not fertilized, fed and controlled
by theology, it becomes a stylized performance seeking its effect through
manipulative skills rather than the power of vision and the force of truth.
Both theology and evangelism are then, in one important sense, unreal, false to
their own God-given nature; for all true theology has an evangelistic thrust,
and all true evangelism is theology in action.
J. I. Packer
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