Evangelist Ben Jack, speaking at the World Evangelical Alliance‘s 14th General Assembly, emphasized the need for the Church to engage in “very dark places” without compromising the Gospel. With 26 years in evangelism and a background as a DJ, Jack used his time in nightclubs as a mission field, reaching individuals searching for escape. His message offered them true hope: Jesus Christ.
Ben Jack warned believers to remain firmly rooted in the Gospel when entering cultural spaces: “If we don’t know the Gospel deeply, richly and above everything else, when we go into the world to engage culturally, it is culture that will evangelize us, rather than we who will evangelize into the culture.” He cautioned against diluting the message: “Before we know it, we do what Paul warned us against in Galatians and we either add something to the Gospel that shouldn’t be there or, more likely, we take something away from the Gospel and we turn it into no Gospel at all, and there is no point to no Gospel at all.”
