Chapter Two THE GOSPEL MOVES THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS Before I became a professor at Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, I preached and pastored churches for twenty-four years. Most of the concepts of evangelism I had read emphasized training Christians to tell strangers about the Lord. I call a stranger like this “Person X.” As I began to prepare to teach personal evangelism at the seminary, I did not take my position lightly. I was very aware of James’s admonition, “Let not many of you become