Archive for the 'evangelism' Category
How Not to Be a Missional Church
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson November 19th, 2009 on Creation ProjectMy series on How Not to Be a Missional Church is now complete! Check it out at The Resurgence.
Archbishop William Temple said: “Your religion is your solitude.” In other words, where your thoughts go in your silence determine your religion, your chief objects of devotion and joy. Do our thought wander to God or to self, to entertainment or to community, to hobbies […]
Ken Myers: After Evangelism
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson February 5th, 2009 on Creation ProjectKen Myers of Mars Hill Audio will be speaking on: After Evangelism: Discipleship and the Cultural Life of Churches at Gordon-Conwell’s campus in South Hamilton, Massachusetts on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Wish I could attend. Myers is as robust cultural critic and apologist. His thoughtful Mars Hill Audio program turns out volume after volume of […]
Notes from Total Church Conference
Closed Published by jdodson August 16th, 2008 on Creation ProjectI am posting some notes and reflections from the Total Church conference here.
At JT’s blog, Keller discusses the thesis and distinguishing marks of this forthcoming book, The Reason of God. He also notes other books in the works.
Do we have to talk about sin (first) in Evangelism?
Closed Published by jdodson January 18th, 2008 on Creation ProjectShould we start gospel conversations with sin? What about starting with new creation? Check the discussion just started in on this post and in the comments. Weigh in.
Christianity, A Religion of Negatives
Closed Published by jdodson December 27th, 2007 on Creation ProjectChristianity, especially fundamentalist Christianity, is often cast as a religion of negatives. It is often quipped that Christians are known by what they are against, not what they are for. George Marsden has highlighted the particularly negative Christianity of fundamentalists by calling them “evangelicals who are angry about something.”
These negative and angry expressions of Christian […]
If you haven’t heard of unChristian: what a new generation that thinks about Christianity…and why it matters you’ll want to pick up a copy. This is the kind of book that missional people read. Of course, the best approach to finding out what a “new generation thinks about Christianity” is to ask them yourself. Nothing […]
Listening to Our Fellow Citizens
Closed Published by jdodson September 20th, 2007 on Creation ProjectDeprogramming myself from often good, but largely program and doctrine-driven churches, I am discovering the joy of becoming a part of a mission-driven community. Most of my church experience and church planting training has been thoroughly Western and attractional–relying on plans, time lines, informational meetings, monologue preaching and teaching, Bible-studies, book studies, evangelistic events, etc. […]
Reinterpreting the Great Commission
Closed Published by jdodson September 13th, 2007 on Creation ProjectThe ubiquity of the Great Commission is rivaled by its interpretive poverty. Matthew 28:18-20—containing the command to make disciples of all nations—is frequently summoned to validate countless and sundry discipleship and evangelism programs, ideas and practices, very often ignoring the interpretive wealth beneath its surface. It’s as if we expect that planting the end of […]