Book Briefs: May 18, 1984

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Christianity Today May 18, 1984

Special Evangelism Section: Evangelism: The New Wave Is a Tidal Wave: You Can Even Talk about Evangelism in Polite Society

Tim Stafford

Eutychus and His Kin: May 18, 1984

Editorial

The “Separation” of Church and State?

The Real Issue: Free Exercise of Religion

Vanishing Childhood: Our Confused Culture Is Crowding out the Most Important Years of Life

Rodney Clapp

Eight Important Books on Vanishing Childhood

On Mourning the Death of a Marriage: It Should Not Be; but If Death Occurs, We Need to Know How to Grieve

Walter Wangerin

The Greatest Church Growth Is beyond Our Shores: The World’s Biggest Churches Are Not in Dallas or Los Angeles

C. Peter Wagner

Heaven and Hell under Every Bush

Thomas Howard

The ‘Atrocious’ Mathematics of the Gospel

Refiner’s Fire: There Is an Answer to Evil

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

How Does the Church’s View of Millennialism Affect Missions?

Leslie R. Keylock

Spirituality from the Bottom Up

Witnessing: A Way of Life or a Way with Words?: To Share God’s Message I Must Be God’s Person

Dick Innes

How the World’s Largest Church Got that Way: The Pastor Explains How to Evangelize through Cell Groups

Paul Yonggi Cho

A Study Finds Little Evidence that Religious TV Hurts Local Churches

Beth Spring

An Evangelical Presbyterian Body Asks a Second Group to Join It

Strategists Work to Sound the Death Knell for Abortion

Randy Frame

Fundamentalists Go to Capital to Discuss God, Not Government

Move over National Enquirer—The Bible Is Coming

He Puts Biblical Archaeology on 100,000 Coffee Tables

A White House Aide Reaches out to Reagan’s Opponents

Rock ‘N’ Rollen Flashes His Gospel Message on Television

James R. Adair

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I Sold My Body and Couldn’t Quit Heroin. But God Pursued Me.

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Christians Need Clearer Thinking About Sterilization

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The wide and easy acceptance of vasectomies shows the weakness of our moral and biblical reasoning.

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Why I Don’t Debate Atheists

We need apologetics, but what we need more is genuine confidence in the Word we carry.

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Evangelicals Debate Sterilization

Kara Bettis Carvalho

Vasectomies and tube tying are more common among evangelicals than many realize. Do they have biblical warrant?

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Men Who Didn’t Get the Message

Amid pressure to worship Darwinism, these are three stories of resilient refusal.