Fellowship of Canadian Evangelists

The Canadian Evangelist - Best From the Past

Review the best from the past editions of The Canadian Evangelist:

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MARCH 2003 by T.V Thomas
MOVING AHEAD … WITH NEW HORIZONS
I am delighted with the fact that FOCE is moving forward again....

MARCH 1996
STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN by Marney Patterson
What would I change if I were starting my itinerant ministry all over again? I would change at least two things....

SEPTEMBER 1995
MULTIPLYING OURSELVES by T.V Thomas
Multiplication is one of the fundamental laws of life. Everything that grows and reproduces operates by multiplication. An evangelist needs to be a multiplier too....

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET STARTED …? by Larry Brice
Over the telephone recently, a seasoned itinerant evangelist said he had never seen such a
time in his many years when there were so few itinerant evangelists in Canada and the United
States....

FEBUARY 1995
THE ROLE OF THE EVANGELIST TODAY interview by Dr Brian Stiller
Dr. Brian Stiller is President of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and spoke with The Canadian Evangelist. Evangelist John Bowen conducted the interview on June 17, 1994....

FALL 1994
WHY A CODE? by T.V. Thomas
This question has been asked recently in regard to the Code of Ethics adopted in June, 1993 by the Fellowship of Canadian Evangelists. Four primary reasons can be stated why the Code was seen as necessary....

THE EVANGELIST'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE LOCAL CHURCH by Bruce Redding
One day I was on my way to preach in another city. In the outskirts of the city my car broke down. After having it towed to the nearest garage, I decided to take the bus into the city...

SUMMER 1994
THE EVANGELISM MANDATE:Recovering the Centrality of Gospel
preaching by David L. Larsen (Crossway Books, 1992). Reviewed by T.V. Thomas
This book is written primarily to encourage pastors of local churches to include evangelistic preaching in their pulpit menu (itself a worthy aim), but the evangelist will also benefit from chapters in Larsen’s work which focus on the theology and psychology of conversion, the sociology of evangelistic preaching, and the evangelistic invitation....

FINDING THE CULTURAL BUTTON-HOLE by John Bowen
Francis Schaeffer used to talk about "the Gospel for the person with the Bible and the
Gospel for the person without the Bible." This sounds strange coming from one so
biblically based. How can there be two Gospels?...

SPRING 1993
TOWARD RELEVANCY by T.V. Thomas
A perennial challenge in the ministry of the Word of God is knowing how to apply the biblical text to a given cultural context. Nowhere is this more pressing than when we engage in evangelism -- trying to make the Good News relevant to the hearts and minds of our contemporary society....

FALL 1992
SMALL BEGINNINGS . . . by T.V. Thomas
What makes a moment in history special? Every moment, however routine or mundane, becomes a moment in history once it passes. However, certain moments stand out from the seeming infiniteness of time and memory. The first National Conference for evangelists and spouses at Guelph, Ontario in June '92 was one such special moment in Canadian evangelism...

IS THERE ANY REAL RIGHT OR WRONG? by Michael Horner
It's quite fashionable these days to suggest that ethics are relative- WHAT'S RIGHT FOR ONE PERSON IS NOT NECESSARlLY RIGHT FOR ANOTHER....