Thursday, October 9th, 2008
- Start the picture around the 1850s, at a time when almost everyone was still on board with a single sense of morality as defined by the Church & the Bible. Everybody believed a thing is either true on false – there was only absolute truth. It is a high standard to follow, and some fail. Many are already outside the church – alcoholics, prostitutes, the desperately poor, the willfully lost … which is odd, because they’re the very people Christ said he came to save, and with whom he frequently connected. Few Christians chose to notice this, however, and fewer did anything about it. (more…)
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
It’s just struck me that somewhere around the time (in the twentieth century) that we stopped talking about marriage as God’s tool for propagation, we also stopped taking evangelism seriously. I wonder if there’s a connection? (more…)
Tags: Bible, children, evangelism, marriage, outreach
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