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Get Close to Refugees, and Let Love Grow | [View online]( [Give Now]( Advertisement [Christianity Today Connection]( [Home]( [Our Latest]( [Subscribe]( Wednesday, February 13, 2019 [Alister McGrath: Michael Green Taught Me the Importance of Evangelism]( [Alister McGrath: Michael Green Taught Me the Importance of Evangelism]( The theologian taught a generation to evangelize through the local church. Alister McGrath When John Stott and J. I. Packer needed speakers for a crucial 1960s gathering of evangelical leaders, they invited only one in his 30s: Michael Green. The British theologian, who died in Oxford on February 6 at the age of 88, went on to become one of the most gifted evangelists of his generation. Green, an academically talented student, was converted to Christianity as a teenager. In quick succession, he earned first class honors in classics at Oxford and first class honors in theology at Cambridge. ... 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