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Preparing for General Convention? Listen to Diana Butler Bass on what is happening across the religious landscape before re-structuring and budgeting for the future.
A news story highlights an aspect of evangelism we often forget and that is that evangelism is more than just selling your denomination.
We are celebrating the holiest season of the Christian year, a season we enter after seven weeks of preparation. How would you speak about your experiences during this time to someone who wasn’t attending a church, but might want to?
“Christian” has become a euphemism for “acceptable to the type of Christian (in most instances Protestant) who frowns on homosexuality and wishes Saul Alinsky had minded his own business.”
“Not so much, ‘You Christians are judgmental and hypocritical,’ it’s like, ‘So what? Why should I care?'”
In an “Open Letter to Churches Seeking New Members” blogger Lyda from “See Lyda Run” details her and her husband Brian’s expectations (and reactions) to
Jake Dell thinks about thing that the mainline churches can do together right now which will deepen our reach and improve how we communicate our Gospel message.
Opening the eyes of our faith can be painful. It sometimes reveals glimpses of things about ourselves we’d rather not address. Yet one of the recurring themes of the Good News in Christ is that the God that calls us again and again to return is also the God of do-overs–and that our open eyes of faith have the power to open doors for others to view the glories of Heaven on earth.
What would your elevator speech for the Episcopal Church sound like? How about your elevator speech for your parish?