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title: 'R.B. Kuiper on Man-Centered Evangelism'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-11-21
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-r-b-kuiper-on-man-centered-evangelism
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# R.B. Kuiper on Man-Centered Evangelism

“Sad to say, much of present-day evangelism is man-centered. Far too often the limelight is turned full upon the evangelist — his personality, his eloquence, his ability as an organizer, the story of his conversion, the hardships which he has endured, the number of his converts, in some instances the miracles of healing allegedly performed by him. At other times attention is focused on those who are being evangelized — their large numbers, their sorry plight as exemplified by poverty, disease, and immorality, their supposed yearning for the gospel of salvation, and, worst of all, the good that is said to dwell in them and to enable them to exercise saving faith of their own free, although unregenerate, volition. And how often the welfare of man, whether temporal or eternal, is made the sole end of evangelism!” — [**R.B. Kuiper**](/authors/rienk-bouke-kuiper), *God-Centered Evangelism* (1961), p. 8