10/13/2014

Doing More Sowin--Walter Brueggemann on Evangelism

For starters, why would anyone even want to begin a life of faith and what does the church have to offer as an invitation? What is our vision and our mission? Is it to find more people that can greet, usher, and help us pay the bills, or is it to change lives and make the world a better place? Are we passionate about that vision and can we articulate it with a sense of confidence, or do we need to have our pastor step in and do that for us? In this short clip from Walter Brueggemann, he suggests that evangelism is about lifting up a shared way of living that contradicts the prevailing values of our world, knowing that those worldly values will never give us what we want. Read the Paradox of our Time for a greater sense of where "conventional wisdom" has taken us.

Story from ELCA Stewardship.