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Spread the Word: Reclaiming the Apostolic Tradition of Evangelism is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Orthodox Church has an unbroken tradition of evangelism that goes back to the Apostles. But Orthodox evangelism looks different than the Protestant variety. With his characteristic straight-forward and humorous style, Father Michael Keiser covers the history of Orthodox evangelism, the rationale, and the methods for continuing this tradition in a contemporary Western post-Christian society.

non-Jews and worshipped the God of Israel. These people were despised as mongrels by those who had maintained their ethnic and religious purity. Escaping persecution when it broke out in Jerusalem, “Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them” (Acts 8:5). This was the area in which Jesus had encountered the Samaritan woman (John 4), whom Tradition identifies as St. Photini, and it is possible her witness was remembered. With bold preaching about the coming of the Kingdom of
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