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Indlæser... How to Reach the West Again: Six Essential Elements of a Missionary Encounter (udgave 2020)af Timothy J Keller (Forfatter)
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Christianity is declining in the West. Churches in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe are closing their doors at an accelerating rate. How will the church respond? In this short but sweeping manifesto, New York Times bestselling author and pastor Timothy Keller argues that this decline should prompt us to rethink evangelism from the ground up. Using the early church as our guide, churches and individual Christians must examine ourselves, our culture, and Scripture to work toward a new missionary encounter with Western culture that will make the gospel both attractive and credible to a new generation. No library descriptions found. |
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This would be a good essay to discuss with Christian friends or a church staff team. I noticed a helpful discussion guide on the Redeemer CTC website.
I particularly enjoyed his metaphor about how secular world views pinch and rip and how Christians need to show how the gospel fits.
“All worldviews that are not biblically based are like a suit of clothes that are too small. Such clothes always uncomfortably pinch—and occasionally they actually rip. The late modern view of reality and the self does not fit human nature as God designed it. There are times in which stories and art reveal how today’s beliefs pinch and fail to satisfy. There are other times—especially times of pain—that the late modern worldview “rips” and wholly fails to provide what is needed to face such experiences. Christians need to be prepared in these moments to “give an answer to everyone who asks [them] to give the reason for the hope that [they] have” (1 Peter 3:15).”
I also enjoyed this quote from Langdon Gilkey on the difference between moralism and grace.
“Religion is not the place where the problem of man’s egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle between human pride and God’s grace takes place. Insofar as human pride may win the battle, religion can and does become one of the instruments of human sin. But insofar as there the self does meet God and so can surrender to something beyond its own self-interest, religion may provide the one possibility for a much needed and very rare release from our common self-concern.” ( )