Reflections on Evangelism 2: The task of re-integration

Reconnecting the Gospel message with the shape of our lives is fundamentally a task of re-integration. What people are hungry for, I believe, is a deeply spiritual way of life-not a set of beliefs that if believed, secures salvation. Nor are they interested in cold ritual detached from ones regular flow of living.

We need to re-root our understanding of the Church in our understanding that the Church participates within the Triune life of God-that we participate in his mission into the world and we participate in Christ?s worship of God-all of this made possible by the Holy Spirit.
We need to move beyond seeing evangelism as merely an activity-of communicating a set of universalized disembodied truths. Instead, we need to explore the ways in which we can embody the Gospel and have evangelism be the outward communication of that embodiment.

Mark Van Steenwyk is the editor of JesusManifesto.com. He is a Mennonite pastor (Missio Dei in Minneapolis), writer, speaker, and grassroots educator. He lives in South Minneapolis with his wife (Amy), son (Jonas) and some of their friends.

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