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Rethinking Evangelism

Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by Mark in Evangelism

I tried to post this by mobile last night, but it didn’t work.  I’ll do it again.

I haven’t had much time to blog lately, and wanted to get one short post in now.  I wanted to link to a post by Norma at “my church journey”.  There’s been discussion about evangelism, and I found Norma’s post (link following) to be a good reminder, that evangelism takes many forms.  For many of you this may be obvious, but for me it was an “a ha” kind of moment.

my church journey: “The Best Kept Secret of Christian Mission” (John Dickson) : a review.

Second, I wanted to pose a question.  The question is spurred by my  previous post on evangelism.  In writing the post, I was trying to state what the alternative approach would be if we weren’t going to take the “escape hell” approach.  I was surprised how hard it was for me to identify in concrete thoughts what I would say, and this concerned me.  I have thought much about it since, and am comfortable with what I would say.  The question I pose is “if you are not going to evangelize using the “freedom from hell” message, what message or approach would you use (or do you use)?”  For me to find my answer I really had to evaluate, specifically and in concrete terms, what has Christ done for me?  Or what do I have in Christ that I wouldn’t have otherwise?  Answering this from my old thought processes is impossible, because I see now how much it costs us to follow Christ (everything), whereas before I preached how great life is when you are saved, not comprehending the selfless nature of a walk with God.  So, I wanted to get everyone’s feedback on this issue.  Again, this may be basic for all of you, but to me it seemed a relevant conversation.