http://mattjudkins.com/2006/12/12/divisions-divisions-divisions/ life and faith in okc Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mattjudkins.com/2006/12/12/divisions-divisions-divisions/#comment-21 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:18:08 +0000 http://mattjudkins.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/divisions-divisions-divisions/#comment-21 Thanks Gavin. I think we have to increasingly talk about evangelism in a communal sense. Far too often, we have pictures of individualistic ‘knocking-on-doors’ ‘if you died tonight’ style evangelism in our minds. What about the authentic community of God engaged in the missio Dei as witnessing community? Would people want to enter that kind of authentic hospitable community? I would say absolutely. You can study, study, study ’till you’re blue in the face, but if you aren’t being a Kingdom community of sorts, then you’re not growing as a disciple. I’ve seen this in my churches. These churches grow inasmuch as they become the Church beyond their walls. Evangelism, mission, and discipleship are simply too intertwined to be treated separately.

]]> http://mattjudkins.com/2006/12/12/divisions-divisions-divisions/#comment-20 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:58:52 +0000 http://mattjudkins.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/divisions-divisions-divisions/#comment-20 i think i can start talking about it. i too can wish that our missions was much more global and local in action. i don’t even know what evangelism is for us, however, i do know that we operate in such a survivalist mentality that we don’t outstretch to those in need physically, emotional, or spiritual that there is nothing actually happening. thus, our discipleship is stagnant, except for the studies we do.

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