BOLDNESS IN EVANGELISM The dictionary defines boldness as “possessing, showing, or requiring courage; audacious; fearless, spirited.”10 Thayer, in his Greek lexicon, defines the word as “freedom in speaking, unreservedness in speech, openly, frankly without concealment.” Thayer goes on to give nuances to the word such as “free and fearless confidence, cheerful courage, . . . assurance.” He tells us boldness means “the confidence in telling one to do something of the thing to be done.”11 In light