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Marks Of The Messenger: Knowing, Living And Speaking The Gospel (2010)

by J. Mack Stiles(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0830833501 (ISBN13: 9780830833504)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

IVP Books

review 1: This book was eye opening. It taught me never to assume the gospel and that only the gospel is the gospel. Many things reflects the gospel, flow out of the gospel, are inspired by the gospel, but they are not the gospel. Only the gospel is the gospel. And the relationship between evangelism and social justice is that the gospel itself transforms. Social justice is a byproduct of the gospel coming to a culture or a people. So we lead with the gospel, which changes people and their behaviors...
review 2: Marks of the Messenger“People need to see the depth of their sin so that they come to a fuller understanding of the depth of God’s grace.” (p. 31)There is a beauty about this book. J. Mack Stiles takes the mystery of evangelism and ruins it for us all. ... more He not only removes the excuses we have fabricated to avoid being messengers, but encourages the proper handling of the gospel message. Page after page, the logic from the foundational stones of scripture remove any doubt that Jesus has not only saved us, but enabled us to live out the mission of God. “Go deeper into the gospel. Don’t grow away from it – ever. The real work of our spiritual growth is to allow the themes of the gospel to permeate our lives.” (p. 54)Romans 1:16 states that “the gospel, is the power of God for salvation” and this book seems to open that verse up in many ways. There is a sense from the beginning of this book, which it carries throughout, that the gospel message is vital to the salvation and the depth that message can infiltrate our lives. “Understanding that a changed life is required to attest to true conversion also guards us from thinking that the only important event is the conversion event.” (p. 77). This book warns us of misuses and common misconceptions. It helps to clarify a life dependent of the gospel story, and how being so reliant shapes our usage and conduct with the message. There is freedom as we learn or re-learn the intentional communication that will transform our lives to mimic our creator more clearly.There are so many great quotes that can summarize this book. I leave you with this one, “as evangelists we want to be people who are more concerned with our faithfulness in presenting Christ clearly than we are with results. We want to be the kind of evangelists who take people more seriously than to manipulate them into a prayer of commitment. And we want to be people who present the gospel with care, knowing spiritual lives are at stake.” (p.23) less

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