Abstract
It was the first-century believers’ Christ-centered core values that drove their evangelism behavior. Core values still drive the behavior of present day believers. For present day followers of Christ to maximize the work of Christ’s Great Commission, Christians need Christcentered core values held at an obsessive level, plus God’s preparation and provision. Believers making up the first-century church, engaged their world through touch points of their time; the Roman political system providing relatively safe travel and quality roads, the widely-used Greek language, and scattered post-Pentecost new Christian believers. Today’s Christians need to engage our world through the touch points of our time: easy and relatively safe world travel, a new level of almost instantaneously global communication between nearly any points on earth, and an increase in open borders and international business. The question remains whether today’s Christians will fully take up the challenge.
Recommended Citation
Quist, A. H. (2008). The God-Equipped Magnificent Obsession: A Christ-Centered and Values-Based Strategic Intent. Journal of the American Society for Church Growth, 19(1), 99-110. Retrieved from https://place.asburyseminary.edu/jascg/vol19/iss1/9
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