"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Friday, December 28, 2012

Aggressive Evangelism

We see people more as objects of our efforts, with preplanned outcomes. Outcomes, when not realized, cause us to drop people like a rag doll.
People are sick of church folks who's only invitation seems to be to some church event or other. Other than trying to recruit you to that, they don't seem to have much use for you.

"Evangelism as we know it hasn't worked. Either evangelism is so aggressive you want to get a restraining order, or else evangelism is so restrained you want to call it to order. Our strategies have been spectacularly useless at best, counterproductive at worst. We have lived through an exodus, but not of the biblical kind."

(Leonard Sweet. "Nudge". Pg 35)

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