CHAPTER 7 Defining Evangelizing - Evangelism Unlimited

416 Evangelizology
ax. Terms expressing outward expression and expansion of evangelism:
98) evxaposte,llw (13 NT uses; 232 LXX uses)– “the word of this salvation is sent out” Acts
13:26 (NA Greek text; Byzantine reads avposte,llw)
Mark 16:8b (NLT), “Afterward Jesus himself sent them out from east to west with the sacred and
unfailing message of salvation that gives eternal life. Amen.”
Acts 22:21, “And He said to me, ‘Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles’”; literal word
order, “Go, for I unto the Gentiles far away send you [out].”
Gal 4:4, “But when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born
under the Law”
Gal 4:6, “And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying,
‘Abba! Father!’”
99) evxhce,omai – “For the word of the Lord has sounded forth from you,” 1 Thess 1:8
100) evxe,rcomai (222 NT uses), go out, come out; go forth:
1 Thess 1:8, “in every place your faith toward God has gone forth”
1 Cor 14:36, “What? was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it unto you alone?
101) pa,reimi (24 NT uses), [come unto]; be present; at one’s disposal:
Col 1:5-6 “…of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel, which has come to
you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing…”
ay. Terms dealing with the spread of the Gospel:
102) diafhmi,zw (3 NT uses), meaning spread the news, spread widely, disseminate
(cf. Matt 28:15):
Matt 9:31, “But they went out, and spread the news about Him in all that land”
Mark 1:45, “But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news about, to such
an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas;
and they were coming to Him from everywhere.”
2) plhro,w and cognate:
(103) plhro,w (88 NT uses), meaning to fill; fill up; finish; fulfill; complete:
Acts 5:28, “saying, ‘We gave you strict orders not to continue teaching in this name, and
behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood
upon us.’”
Acts 12:25, “And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their
mission [th.n diakoni,an, cf. 2 Tim 4:5], taking along with them John, who was also called
Mark”
Rom 15:18-19, “For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has
accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, in
the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and
round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ”
Note also this use in Rom 13:8, “for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law”
[BYZ: o` ga.r avgapw/n to.n e[teron( no,mon peplh,rwken]