In the mid-1970s I took Coleman Crocker’s Personal Evangelism class in college. He handed out his short evangelistic study sheet, a handful of questions with yes and no answers. The very first question is, “Do you want to go to heaven?
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Word Cue: Hide (Gr., krupto). “… God Himself judicially hides the knowledge of salvation from those who do not seek it seriously. … Jesus extols the divine direction even in its paradoxical character, which sets in the wrong all human arrogance.” (Oepke, TDNT III: 973)
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