The term refers to Gospel Tracts someone who takes the gospel to a new area as a missionary would, in the context of its limited biblical usage (Patrick, Evangelist, Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, 1:549). It is Gospel Tracts generally thought that this type of minister is an itinerant, one who travels from place to place spreading the gospel (Funderburk, Evangelist, The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, 2:418).

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