Review of Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy

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Beyond Belief by Patrick McElroy is subtitled Live a Consistent, Spiritually Powerful life.From the back cover: “a book about breaking free from a spiritually weak life to achieve the consistently powerful one that is available to every believer.It’s a Bible Study 101 that guides reader … [Read more...]

The Rabbit and the Elephant Review

Rabbit and the Elephant Book Review

Today, I’m participating in a blog book tour for The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today's Church Tony and Felicity Dale.Others have published their entry ahead of me (see below), and a few others will follow behind. The Rabbit and the Elephant A movement of house … [Read more...]

Drifting Away from the World

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In They like Jesus, but not the Church, even Dan Kimball confesses that he made the same discovery at one point-- no non-Christian relationships.As I have given relational evangelism training seminars around the US and Latin America, the most common confession I hear from those who have walked … [Read more...]

Did Saint Francis of Assisi get it wrong?

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One of my loyal readers (via RSS feed) wrote an interesting post: Today, I had coffee with a friend of mine who said, "I don't believe that it is my responsibility to share the gospel." He just wanted to live his life in such a way that people would be attracted to that example and hopefully come … [Read more...]

Friday Finds

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Servant Evangelism Steve Sjogren, in Scattering, Watering, and then...Waiting reminds us about how the role of the evangelist: Jesus said that the Holy Spirit is like the wind – he (not IT – please, never refer to the Holy Spirit as “it” – that is incredibly offensive to him) is not one … [Read more...]

The Role of the Holy Spirit in Evangelism

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We know that God's Spirit is at work in us as believers, training us, teaching us, and transforming us.But, I also want to point out how the Holy Spirit prepares the way for evangelism to occur naturally. Phillip and the Ethiopian Consider Phillip and the Ethiopian Eunuch.Clearly the … [Read more...]

Si no fuera por tu gracia y por tu amor

A question that I'm asked often when teaching is "what is postmodernism?" It's a term I throw around loosely, since that's just part of my worldview. I've used it several times in this blog already and will continue to do so.But often, my audience has only heard the word, not ever having thought … [Read more...]