(1) As I thought about the subject, it seems to me that the teachings of Jesus and the sacred texts of the New Testament would be a good starting point for us to engage tonight’s subject of What on Earth is Evangelism? The text in the New Testament, at the end of what we call the Sermon on the Mount, for me, has become a paradigm for which to frame my own understanding of my own views, my own beliefs, but also how to relate and understand people who come to different conclusions in life than I personally have come to.
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(2) I spend part of my weeks and months and year in various parts of the world looking at poverty face to face, where some people live with horrific circumstances, not because they've created those circumstances, but, more often, they have inherited them.
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(3) What has sensitized me in more recent years from this metaphor is to also say to us that everyone faces storms. Sometimes, those storms come out of huge systems.
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(4) And so as I live and move and have my being on the face of this planet, I'm helped with this framework, with this paradigm, to say belief is in everyone's spirit. It's not just belief but it then begins to shape us, drive convictions in.
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(5) So it's a positive initiative to invite people to respond to the good news and to move from outside to inside, in an initial encounter experience response to God.
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