Questioning our Evangelism Practises

I just finished reading Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J. I. Packer. It's a fairly short book made up of one tiny introductory chapter followed by 3 jam packed chapters. It should only take you less than a week to read it.

At the end of chapter 3, Packer poses 5 questions that he encourages us to ask of our own evangelism practises. Here they are:

1) Is this way of presenting Christ calculated to impress on people that the gospel is a word from God?

2) Is this way of presenting Christ calculated to promote, or impede, the work of the word in men’s minds?

3) Is this way of presenting Christ calculated to convey to people the doctrine of the gospel, and not just part of it, but the whole of it?

4) Is this way of presenting Christ calculated to convey to people the application of the gospel, and not just part of it, but the whole of it?

5) Is this way of presenting Christ calculated to convey gospel truth in a manner that is appropriately serious?

If you read the chapter yourself he goes into detail on why asking those questions are important. What do you think of these questions? Are there other questions we should be asking? Are some of these questions not important?

And how do our evangelism practises stand up against these questions? Do they make the cut?

Examples of evangelism practises/courses:

• Two ways to live
• Simply Christianity
• Just Start Talking
• Introducing God
• one-to-one/Bible reading
• doorknocking
• events/talks