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Rating: 
Summary: Good, but incomplete
Review: Dr. Kennedy offers a useful tool to share the gospel. However, the EE approach has the potential to fill people with false hope. Specifically, EE does not require any real committment on the believer nor is there anything mentioned about a willingness to obey Jesus as Lord. I am certainly not adovocating a legalistic position, but giving mere lip service to Jesus without a willingness to obey and follow his word is, as James calls it, "dead faith." In short, I think the book is a very useful tool and EE is a pretty good format for sharing God's word. I am concerned about the lack of committment to Jesus. Signing on a dotted line and agreeing with some biblical facts do not get you into Heaven. Accepting Jesus, believing him, repenting of your sins and striving to follow him, through success and failure, is true saving faith. Overall, a useful tool nonetheless.
Rating:
Summary: Good, but incomplete
Review: Dr. Kennedy offers a useful tool to share the gospel. However, the EE approach has the potential to fill people with false hope. Specifically, EE does not require any real committment on the believer nor is there anything mentioned about a willingness to obey Jesus as Lord. I am certainly not adovocating a legalistic position, but giving mere lip service to Jesus without a willingness to obey and follow his word is, as James calls it, "dead faith." In short, I think the book is a very useful tool and EE is a pretty good format for sharing God's word. I am concerned about the lack of committment to Jesus. Signing on a dotted line and agreeing with some biblical facts do not get you into Heaven. Accepting Jesus, believing him, repenting of your sins and striving to follow him, through success and failure, is true saving faith. Overall, a useful tool nonetheless.
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Summary: Useful, but not perfect.
Review: EE will teach you to effectively, coherently explain the Gospel to someone else. However I believe that the presentation they promote, though good, is a bit grace heavy -- by that I mean that it starts telling the evangelee about God's grace before they understand why they need it. I recommend reading "Hell's Best Kept Secret" by Ray Comfort and incorporating his ideas into the EE presentation. You lose the benefit of having a canned Gospel presentation to learn, but you gain the benefit of a presentation that will help people to understand their need for Christ.
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Summary: Useful, but not perfect.
Review: EE will teach you to effectively, coherently explain the Gospel to someone else. However I believe that the presentation they promote, though good, is a bit grace heavy -- by that I mean that it starts telling the evangelee about God's grace before they understand why they need it. I recommend reading "Hell's Best Kept Secret" by Ray Comfort and incorporating his ideas into the EE presentation. You lose the benefit of having a canned Gospel presentation to learn, but you gain the benefit of a presentation that will help people to understand their need for Christ.
Rating: 
Summary: Good and practical
Review: This is a pretty good book on how to do door-to-door "friendship" evangelism. I used this as a text book in a Evangelism class that I took at Lee University, and greatly enjoyed it. The book is designed so you could take the information you learned in this book, and train others with it. My only complaint about the book is that it does not encourage people to be a little more aggressive in their presentation of the gospel. If one is not careful, and simply tried to use this book as the only method of presenting the gospel to sinners, then one could end up reducing the gospel to "Jesus is my buddy, Jesus is my pal, Jesus makes me feel good." I would recommend not using the outline for presenting the gospel very strictly, but simply as a basic template (which is good at incorperating all the basic elements of the gospel). Ultimately... my opinion is that this is a great book, and every church would do well to get this into the hands of their members.
Rating:
Summary: Good and practical
Review: This is a pretty good book on how to do door-to-door "friendship" evangelism. I used this as a text book in a Evangelism class that I took at Lee University, and greatly enjoyed it. The book is designed so you could take the information you learned in this book, and train others with it. My only complaint about the book is that it does not encourage people to be a little more aggressive in their presentation of the gospel. If one is not careful, and simply tried to use this book as the only method of presenting the gospel to sinners, then one could end up reducing the gospel to "Jesus is my buddy, Jesus is my pal, Jesus makes me feel good." I would recommend not using the outline for presenting the gospel very strictly, but simply as a basic template (which is good at incorperating all the basic elements of the gospel). Ultimately... my opinion is that this is a great book, and every church would do well to get this into the hands of their members.
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