"I no longer believe in evangelism. To be postevangelistic is to live our lives in Christ without a strategy but with the compassion and the servant posture of Jesus Christ. We do not do evangelism or have a mission. The Holy Spirit is the evangelist, and the mission belongs to God. What we do is simply live our lives publicly as a community in the way of Jesus Christ, and when people inquire as to why we live this way, we share with them an account of the hope within us. We are to love one another, and that creates its own attraction. Taking care of the sick and the needy creates all the evangelism we need."
- Karen Ward (quote from the book Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger
2 comments:
It's simple but we make it so hard....
I really like her sentence..."What we do is simply live our lives publicly as a community in the way of Jesus Christ...." I read this before work this morning and tried to keep these words in my head as I was doing my job today
"Taking care of the sick and the needy creates all the evangelism we need."
that is awesome
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