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Blog Entries by Jim Ruff

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Jim Ruff

Jim served 4 terms of service in Japan, and one term in the suburbs of Chicago, in church-planting and leadership training. He returned to America in 1999 to serve as an associate in developing the Intercultural Training Center at the ABWE Home Office. Jim serves as a trainer of short-term, pre-field, and veteran missionaries, and as a coach to pre-field missionaries in regard to their assignments.  He has written several courses in use in the training division.  Jim is also director of the Missionary Resource Center at ABWE. He completed a D.Min. at Baptist Bible Seminary in May of 2009.

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  • Persuasion in Gospel Presentations

    March 29, 2010
    Filed Under: Bible Topics

    It is that knotty issue of persuasion that we will examine here. Though students of the Word know that Paul used persuasion in his ministry, they wonder whether that was “Paul’s thing,” and perhaps not something that should be used by other witnesses. Once having concluded that persuasion was not a personal or cultural feature of the presentation of the gospel, but that it is appropriate for use today, witnesses are still unsure about their readiness, and of their powers of persuasion. They wonder how much persuasion to use, and whether they will cross the line from persuasion to domination.

  • “Aha! Moments” in ChronoBible Evangelism

    November 26, 2009
    Filed Under: Metanarrative (ChronoBible) Evangelism

    "Aha! moments" are uniquely delightful experiences.

    These are sometimes called flashes of insight, coincidence, serendipity, 悟り(satori – or, enlightenment, to the Buddhist!), being “surprised by joy” (C. S. Lewis) and so forth; these happy moments of discovery shine all too seldom into our daily lives.  But there are also important "Aha! moments" when an unbeliever, through the enlightening work of the Holy Spirit, first "sees" key truths in God's redemptive story.

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