The second way of relating evangelism and social action is better. It regards social action not as a means to evangelism but as a manifestation of evangelism, or at least of the gospel which is being proclaimed. In this case philanthropy is not attached to evangelism rather artificially from the outside, but grows out of it as its natural expression. One might almost say that social action becomes the “sacrament” of evangelism, for it makes the message significantly visible. J. Herman Bavinck in