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The gospel partakes of what has been called the \u201cscandal of particularity.\u201d\u00a0 This particularity is sometimes embarrassing to Christians who want to be sophisticated and tolerant, but the specificity is essential to the gospel.\u00a0 Christianity is not a vague cosmic optimism, a utopian vision of everyone loving one another, a formula for success and happiness, or even a belief in a benevolent deity.\u00a0 It is rather the scandal of Christ crucified.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gene Edward Veith, Jr.1<\/sup> Concordia University-Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The sine quo non of Christian evangelism is what we call The Great Commission:\u00a0 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world <\/em>(Matt. 28:19-20).\u00a0 This command from our Savior contains three elements:\u00a0 1) to teach or \u201cdisciple\u201d, which we all agree means to convert; 2) to baptize the converts; and 3) to teach, or instruct the converts in the faith.<\/p>\n

A simple rule of grammar applies in this verse.\u00a0 The word \u201cnations\u201d is a neuter gender noun, and the pronoun \u201cthem\u201d is a masculine gender pronoun.\u00a0 Since a pronoun has to agree with its antecedent in gender, the subjects of baptism cannot be the \u201cnations\u201d but rather the converts made from among the nations.\u00a0 Evangelism cannot consist of performing a rite upon as many people as possible (as if we tried to baptize the \u201cnations\u201d), but rather of converting individuals within the nations and then baptizing them and teaching them.\u00a0 If we simply performed a water rite upon every individual in a nation, and then called that nation \u201cChristian,\u201d we wouldn\u2019t have evangelized them at all, we would have merely redefined them.<\/p>\n

Now suppose what we are really after is not evangelism but control over individuals and nations or ecumenical unity among all people; baptizing the whole nation would produce such goals and faith would be beside the point.\u00a0 Performing the rite would have defined everyone as Christian so that external demands could be made of them (since without faith internal demands are impossible).<\/p>\n

Noel Smith once said, \u201cThe most powerful and effective and successful force that has ever appeared on this earth against the union of church and state is fundamental, Bible-believing Baptists.\u201d2<\/sup> Why is that?\u00a0 Because believer\u2019s baptism both insures the conversion of the individual and guards against inclusive redefinition of Christianity for ulterior motives.<\/p>\n

The ecumenical concern today is not to get all the nations baptized (for which task the Catholics have always had the best arrangement), but rather to unify all religions and that by a much simpler method.\u00a0 If I were asking a hundred people to come inside a ten-foot circle, I would find my request much more accommodating if I simply redrew the circle to fifty feet, and encircled the area where the people were already standing.\u00a0 This is what I mean by \u201credefinition evangelism.\u201d\u00a0 We simply redefine Christianity to include the people we want to reach.<\/p>\n

The recent Evangelicals and Catholics Together movement, spearheaded by evangelical leaders Chuck Colson and Bill Bright, accomplished something overnight that the church has been trying to do for two thousand years\u2014win the Catholics to Christ.\u00a0 By simply declaring that the Catholic doctrine (always before considered outside the circle of born-again Christianity) is actually Christian after all, we have redefined all the Catholics in the world and thus made them true Christians.\u00a0 At the end of his preaching career, Billy Graham considers Catholics, Russian and Greek Orthodox, as well as many Jews, to be merely different \u201cexpressions\u201d of the one Christian faith.3 <\/sup> There are numerous attempts going on now to pressure Evangelicals (as well as Catholics) to repent of their sin of believing that the Jews need to become Christians.4<\/sup><\/p>\n

I say that redefinition evangelism is a simpler method because it fits the popular, yet anti-Christian, thinking of society at large.\u00a0 According to our societal norm, the worst sin that one can commit is to claim absolute truth.\u00a0 This may be done by pointing out another\u2019s sin, by claiming someone else\u2019s religion is wrong, and even by expressing any antipathy of cultural things.\u00a0 To do any of these is to first claim that you are correct and someone else is wrong, which we all know is a form of bigotry and self-centeredness.\u00a0 By suggesting that someone else may be wrong, you place them in a lesser or victimized status while placing yourself in a privileged class.<\/p>\n

As this global attitude spreads to include tribal groups, occult organizations and Earth worshipers, we have become precariously open to a proposal, by a charismatic world leader, for worldwide church and state unification.\u00a0 In a secular society,\u00a0 claims of cultural superiority (usually known as \u201cmoral superiority\u201d) become as offensive as religious superiority.<\/p>\n

All of this creates great pressure on any attempt to evangelize people from another religious group (or \u201cfaith community\u201d as we often hear).\u00a0 How dare we suggest that we have truth and they do not?\u00a0 Bruce Shelley writes:<\/p>\n

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It is easy to see, then, why Americans, once they understand it, have trouble with the Christian message.\u00a0 The God of the Bible is no democrat, and the gospel of Christ is no product of public opinion.\u00a0 Christian truth is never subject to an approving ballot.\u00a0 It is good news about what God has done in human history to everyone\u2019s surprise, Jews, Greeks, and Americans.\u00a0 It claims to be inside information, a \u201cWord\u201d from God.5<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No Christian is saying that all other religious groups are totally void of any truth.\u00a0 Since Eden, other religions have borrowed whatever they could from the true faith, sometimes to deceive, sometimes in a search for what is right.\u00a0 Theistic\u00a0 Muslims have more truth about God than pantheistic Buddhists.\u00a0\u00a0 But both will stand before God without eternal life because they do not have the gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 One man can jump three feet across a lake, another man can jump twenty, but both come short of jumping across the lake.<\/p>\n

If we did not have a Word from God, we could not be so confident.\u00a0 But when God has gone to great lengths to tell us what is \u201cthe way, the truth and the life,\u201d we have no right to redefine the boundaries.\u00a0 To do so is only to deceive many into thinking all will be well when they stand before God.\u00a0 Just as baptizing all the infants in the world will not make them Christians, pronouncing all people groups \u201cGod\u2019s children\u201d will not make them so either.\u00a0 We must make \u201cdisciples\u201d and baptize only \u201cthem.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Gene Edward Veith, Jr., State of the Arts<\/em> (Wheaton:\u00a0 Crossway Books, 1991) 211.<\/address>\n
2. Noel Smith, \u201cThe Separation of Church and State,\u201d in The Biblical Faith of Baptists <\/em>(Detroit: Fundamental Baptist Congress of America, 1963) 195.<\/address>\n
3. As much as many of us may regret this statement, I had no choice about the conclusion after reading Graham\u2019s autobiography Just As I Am<\/em>. In addition, if my copy of Graham\u2019s interview with Robert Schuller (5-97) is at all accurate, Graham has claimed that even people who never heard the name of Jesus Christ can still be saved if they are sincerely religious.<\/address>\n
4. The Jerusalem Report (1\/11\/96), ran a long article titled \u201cThe Church Repents\u201d in which, among other things, the Lutheran Church in America \u201cvoted to repudiate the anti-Semitism of its founder, Martin Luther\u201d (p. 34).\u00a0 They reported a new \u201ctriologue\u201d among Jews, Christians and Muslims to \u201ccreate a theology of a shared \u2018covenant of Abraham\u2019\u201d (p. 34).<\/address>\n
5. Bruce Shelley, The Gospel and the American Dream <\/em> (Portland: Multnomah, 1989) 39.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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