When it comes to the gospel of Jesus Christ, to know it is to love it. And that which we love, we freely and widely broadcast. Countless named and unnamed Christians through the ages have discovered that their love for Christ plays out naturally – one might say supernaturally – in their desire to spread the word about the Word. But some of us - many of us - still struggle. How can you explain something to someone when they apparently have no desire to listen to what you want to tell them?
In Know and Tell the Gospel, the late evangelist and author John Chapman goes a step further than other authors of evangelism books. Rather than simply assuming that we, his readers, actually know the gospel, Chapman uses the first half of the book to reinforce the gospel's basic truths and provide Scriptural proofs for them. Being an Australian, Chapman might call it ‘revising’ the gospel – not in the sense of changing it, but rehearsing it. The second section, focusing more on method and technique, features only three chapters, and despite its practical focus, theological overlap from the first section is evident, since "a right understanding of the gospel should lead to right methods; an inadequate understanding will inevitably lead to inadequate practices".
Know and Tell the Gospel may or may not teach you anything new about evangelism, but the read is worth it even "just" to rehearse the message of the wonderful saving gospel of Jesus Christ once again. The book's spotlight shines on Christ, the author and perfecter of our faith.
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Dean is the Sales Manager at The Good Book Company. He engages with churches, organizations and individuals to provide them with useful resources for their varying ministries. Dean attends St John's Church in Woking, where he lives with his family.
