Kicking off the 2017 Alabama Baptist State Evangelism Conference (SEC) with a challenge for Christlikeness, Chuck Kelley said, “Everything (in regards to the Christian life and evangelism) is based on the assumption that life with Christ is different than life without Christ.”

Kelley, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, pulled from 2 Corinthians 3:18 for his sermon. “Christlikeness is the key (to evangelism) and without that no evangelism strategy will bear fruit,” he said. “We will not be able to make a mark on this world unless we look like Christ.

“Only by being known by who we are in Jesus … will one be able to make an impact in the lives of others,” Kelley said Feb. 27 at First Baptist Church, Pelham. (continued…)

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