Wednesday Reflection for Week 6

The more I hear about how Emergent churches do evangelism, the more dissatisfied I become when hearing people present formulas and methods for evangelizing. For example, I recently heard a sermon which included an acronym for times people would be most receptive to the gospel. The churches we’ve been talking about in class seem to have much more effective approach; that is, they see that traditional ways of sharing our faith have probably turned more people off than provoked interest in Christianity. I think if more people within the church were intentional about developing relationships with non-Christians and living their lives distinctively than we would have many more opportuniites to witness to what God's done in our lives.