Education and Evangelism

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Education and Evangelism

• The age is gone when evangelism was out there and
  education was in here.

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Education and Evangelism

• The postmodern world requires education and
  evangelism to be united in vision and ministry.

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Education and Evangelism

• Part of the rational, professional, and
  institutional nature of the modern church of the
  past century was the compartmentalization of
  ministries.

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Education and Evangelism

• The 20 Century New Testament scholar C. H. Dodds,
  made an impact in 1936 with a widely adopted
  attempt to show that the early church made a
  definite distinction between preaching and
  teaching, that the act of proclamation was a
  distinct act within the early church and that
  teaching followed preaching. The general
  acceptance of his writing helped to reinforce a
  distinction between education and evangelism.

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Education and Evangelism

• Todays world much like the age of the early
  church calls for a more permeable boundary, if
  any distinction between evangelism and education

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Education and Evangelism

• The Logic of Evangelism
• William Abraham
• Evangelistic Love of God and NeighborA Theology
  of Witness and Discipleship
• Scott Jones

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Education and Evangelism

• Evangelism is that set of loving, intentional
  activities governed by the goal of initiating
  persons into Christian discipleship in response
  to the reign of God.

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Education and Evangelism

• In The Celtic Way of Evangelism How Christianity
  Can Reach the West . . . Again, George Hunter
  writes about the difference between what he
  describes as the evangelism approach in Roman and
  Celtic Christianity.

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Education and Evangelism

• Roman Model Celtic Model
• Presentation Fellowship
• Decision Ministry and
  Conversation
• Fellowship Belief, Invitation
  to
  Commitment

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Education and Evangelism

• Christianity is more caught than taught! As
  Professor Robin Gill observes, belonging comes
  before believing. For this reason, evangelism is
  now about helping people to belong so that they
  can believe.

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Education and Evangelism

• The celtic model of evangelism is central to the
  growth of the emergent church movement in our
  postmodern world.

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Education and Evangelism

• Brian McLaren More Ready Than You Think, Post
  modern evangelism is relational. In essence,
  Christians are converted first in authentic
  spiritual friendship Good evangelists are People
  who engage others in good conversation about
  faith, values, hope, meaning, purpose, goodness,
  beauty, truth, life after death. Life before
  death and God.

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Education and Evangelism

• Good evangelism is the process of being friendly
  without discrimination and influencing all of
  ones friends toward better living, through good
  deeds and good conversations. Engaging in
  spiritual friendship will not only help others
  become Christians, it will help us become better
  Christians, who love God more than ever.

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Education and Evangelism

• The post modern world calls evangelists and
  educators to co-join our work and disciplines to
  reach a world that is hungering for spiritual
  relationship, conversation and community.

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Education and Evangelism

• Three ways for education and evangelism to work
  together
• 1. Equiping ourselves and others to be
  conversational about faith.

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Education and Evangelism
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Education and Evangelism

• Three ways for education and evangelism to work
  together
• 2. Go forth into the world.the virtual world.

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Education and Evangelism

• Three ways for education and evangelism to work
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• 3. Nurture UCC Discipleship Formation

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Education and Evangelism

• Todays world calls evangelism and education to
  an expanded vision that puts aside our
  differences and distinctions to rediscover Jesus
  Great Commission which is both evangelical and
  educational.
• to go forth into the world,
• make disciples and teach them.