Tim Keller on the “Alpha Program” and other once-successful evangelistic programs that churches adopt in order to reach those in their communities with the Gospel:
“I’ve seen this a million times with churches that just sort of try to take the Alpha Program or some other ‘magic bullet’: they raise the money, they train the people, they roll out the program, they’re just trying to ‘graft on’ to the side of their existing ministry an evangelism program hoping that somehow that’s going to help them win poor people—and it won’t work anymore. ‘The demon’s in too deep’.
There’s going to have to be a complete transformation of our personality, our theology and our community by the Gospel. The Gospel has to re-capture us and we have to re-capture the Gospel or evangelism will not work anymore. We won’t be able to do any kind of evangelism anymore. ‘The demon’s in too deep’.”
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