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Wiki MarkupI realize now that I was mistaken in my earlier answer to the question, What is evangelism?, as well as unjust to those representing the alternative answers I singled out for criticism (see "What is evangelism?" \ [ June 1984; rev. May 1987\]).

Evangelism is not, as I held, simply "the explicit witness of the church." Why? Well, because there is a real and important difference between the explicit witness of the church as addressed to those who, having (already) explicitly accepted this witness, are themselves authorized bearers of it and the explicit witness of the church as addressed to those who, not (yet) having explicitly accepted the witness, are not themselves authorized witnesses.

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