Discipleship Before Worship?

by Ben Sternke on December 21, 2010

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Does evangelism in post-Christendom contexts needs to look less like asking people to accept a theory of atonement and more like inviting people to follow Jesus in God’s mission of renewing all things?

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Zacchaeus as a Person of Peace

by Ben Sternke on November 24, 2010

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Just a few thoughts from this morning’s Daily Lectionary reading of the story of Zacchaeus from Luke 19.

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Got Good News?

by Ben Sternke on July 19, 2010

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The good news of Jesus, at its heart, is a message to be proclaimed.

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Why Evangelism Gives Us the Creeps

by Ben Sternke on December 10, 2009

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Perhaps the first step in re-learning evangelism is repenting of being “buzz agents” for Christ.

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Where Does the Gospel Start?

by Ben Sternke on December 4, 2009

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By looking all the way back to creation and all the forward to new creation, we end up with a more robust gospel.

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Mission and Community

by Ben Sternke on September 19, 2009

“We [the church] need to be communities of love. And we need to be seen to be communities of love. People need to encounter the church as a network of relationships rather than a meeting you attend or a place you enter. Mission must involve not only contact between unbelievers and individual Christians, but between [...]

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