"Consider for a moment if it is not evangelism, but rather late-twentieth-century styles of evangelism that deserve our disdain and avoidance. What if evangelism is one of the things that our world needs most?
After all, most people want to talk about things that really matter -
their sense of God,
their experiences of meaning or transcendence,
their attempts to cope with their own mortality,
their struggles with guilt and goodness,
their dreams and hopes and deepest longings.
They want to talk about these things because without them, all that is left in life is -
re-runs and shopping,
copulation and digestion,
earning and savings,
culminating in estate sales and probate."
(Brian McLaren, More Ready Than You Realize, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002, p13-14)
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