What Is the Church’s Mission, Social Action or Evangelism?
By Al Baker - Posted at Forget None Of His Benefits: Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word, Acts 8:4. David Bosch, a white South African from the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) was a well known missiologist and a major player in the anti-apartheid movement in his country. His book entitled Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission has a chapter, “Mission as Evangelism”, in which he addressed the issue of evangelism. Bosch gave this long definition. Evangelism is that dimension and activity of the church’s mission which, by word and deed and in the light of particular conditions and a particular context, offers every person and community, everywhere, a valid opportunity to be directly challenged to a radical reorientation of their lives, a reorientation which involves such things as deliverance from slavery to the world and its powers; embracing Christ as Savior and Lord; becoming a living member of his community, the church; being enlis
