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BBBCanada
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Posted 5/9/2010 7:10 PM (GMT -6)

Avatar: a metaphor for emergent evangelism

Brandon

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow, but vows to every purpose must not hold.--A friend.

To love without love is slavery--Mother Teresa

One Love
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Posted 5/9/2010 7:59 PM (GMT -6)

"We don’t bring God to the other, but find God in the other."

Ok. Do y'all see how the two-storey view impacts evangelism? It just IS THE CASE that God is "in the other." God Himself is in the "heart" of every human being...and is the ground of all being. But we don't know that soul-deep. So we convince ourselves to "find" God in the other...supposedly through kind of openness and reciprocity with the other. So we graduate from thinking we are bringing God to people...to actually seeing that others have somthing to give to us too. That's good and all...but what about the OVERWHELMING TRUTH that God HIMSELF truly IS in the "other"? Where is the impact of that?

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Post Edited (One Love) : 5/9/2010 8:08:04 PM (GMT-5)

Tom
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Posted 5/9/2010 8:09 PM (GMT -6)

Good stuff. I wouldn't say "we evangelize to be evangelized," but still, good point. I do like the "we don't bring God TO the other but find God IN the other."

T

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might-be-don
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Posted 5/12/2010 11:34 AM (GMT -6)

Interestingly enough this also applies to relations within the church, as well as outside.

We were once encouraged to come early to church for prayer... when the reality behind it was not necessarily prayer, but an attempt to get folks there "on-time" for the church service.

peace, don

^{The world's perfect, wouldn't change a thing.}

Tom
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Posted 5/12/2010 4:46 PM (GMT -6)

Yeah, Don. It essentially applies to all human communication and discourse.

T

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