Tom Short
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Tom Short on a college campus
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March 23, 1957 United States |
| Occupation | campus evangelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Subject | Christian apologetics |
| Literary movement | Great Commission church movement |
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Tom Short (born March 23, 1957) is an American traveling campus evangelist affiliated with Great Commission Churches. His beliefs are largely Evangelical, based on the Bible, including salvation from sin through faith in Jesus Christ, and that all Christians should publicly profess their faith, be baptized, and make other disciples. As of 2007, Short claims to have visited over 100 campuses nationwide. Short's stated goal is to see everyone he speaks to on campus turn to Christ. Though he often travels, he lives in Columbus, Ohio. He is a husband and the father of five children.
Tom Short was ordained in the late 1970s by elders of The "Blitz" Movement at Solid Rock Church (now Linworth Road Church) in Columbus, Ohio. Missionaries of the movement at the time operated by filling buses with people, musical instruments and tracts in order to execute a 2- or 3-day campus blitz. They used singing, intensive tract distribution and organized sidewalk canvassing to draw impromptu crowds and to achieve saturation of the intellectual marketplace. By 1980, Short himself began preaching on campuses while stationed at a church in College Park, Maryland, becoming a fixture outside the Hornbake Library on the University of Maryland campus. The movement which was The Blitz finally established itself as "Great Commission International".
Throughout the 1980s, Tom Short preached on college campuses, while also helping to establish New Life Christian Students, a campus ministry run by members of Great Commission International.
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