Evangelism
I’m coming up on my one year anniversary of my first pastoral appointment. And I have a lot to say about church planting: about how I'm learning to risk and persevere, about the experience of herding cats (um, I mean progressive Christians), about how much easier it is for people to talk about churchy things over wine, beer, or coffee, and about how I see a lot of people seeking spirituality and asking questions. Maybe at some point, I’ll write a little ditty on each of those things. For today, I want to write a bit about what evangelism looks like to me. I know, I know. That word “evangelism” is probably conjuring up modern images in you—maybe a political voting block, praise and worship music, praying a certain kind of prayer, a robust faith. Let all that go for a second so we can look at few ways the word has been used. At one time in the not so distant past, the most prominent feature of those identifying as evangelical wa...