Tag: Evangelism

Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of the world’s most famous preacher, talks about the long road to ministry.

If you are in a room with 99 other randomly selected people, you are the Episcopalian. To double the size of the church, you need to lead one other person out of that room with you. Is the best strategy to offer a generalized message aimed at appealing, if mildly, to as many people as possible? Or is it better to differentiate yourself as clearly as possible from other churches?

The Practicing Church is a new movement designed to encourage and accelerate the redefinition of Christianity being called for by Christians and Non Christians. A hunger for spiritual authenticity and demand for practicality is replacing beliefism – a spirituality that puts me first – with otherlyness.

Back in the first century, the Christian church was organic, communal and mostly free of ritual—and it needs to become so again—as does every organization, public or private, large or small.

Soong-Chan Rah, thought of as sort of prophet to the Evangelical mainstream, is interviewed about what is next for evangelicalism. He has a lot to

All four presentations in the Diocese of Washington’s evangelism series are now available online. The presenters were Brian McLaren, Dean Ian Markham and Professor David Gortner of Virginia Theological Seminary and the Rev. Terry Martin, better known to some of you as Father Jake.

It is more important than ever that we know and share our tradition. The risen Christ is actually present in the telling of the Christian story. It is essential that we tell the story—not talk about the story, not give directives based on the story, not modify or abridge the story—but tell the story.

The last half century has not been kind to the mainline denominations. Now the mainline churches are looking to their evangelical and free-church cousins and thinking about finding new ways to communicating their message to the community.

Contemporary (post-modern) “permission evangelism” or “participation evangelism” is much more about a relationship in which a person’s real need is discovered and the gospel is found to be “Good News” for their real need.