{"id":520,"date":"2008-09-30T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=520"},"modified":"2008-09-26T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T16:04:21","slug":"will-evangelism-cure-the-sbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Will Evangelism Cure the SBC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From James Grant<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I finally got around to reading iMonk’s rant on the ten year focus on evangelism in the SBC. It is well worth the read. I agree with him. The last thing the SBC needs to do is focus on evangelism. There are a lot of other things the SBC should be focusing on, and Spencer mentions some of them. For example,<\/p>\n

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  1. We need to have healthy churches.<\/li>\n
  2. We need to have a clear Gospel message.<\/li>\n
  3. We need meaningful church membership.<\/li>\n
  4. We need pastors who can grow disciples.<\/li>\n
  5. We need Christians on mission in the world where God’s placed them.
    \nWe need to love people.<\/li>\n
  6. We need to live authentically human lives.<\/li>\n
  7. We need a missional mindset for going into the world.<\/li>\n
  8. We need to see our prevailing sins, like materialism, classism, racism and involvement in the prosperity Gospel.<\/li>\n
  9. We need to repent of our pragmatism, because it’s not true that if just one walks forward, everything we did was right.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I agree 100% and would add several other problems. But Spencer goes on to say, “We’re like a hospital with real problems. Doctor problems. Staff problems. Quality problems. Effectiveness problems. People aren’t getting well. Some are getting a lot worse. Some aren’t making it. And we are concerned”\u00a6”\u00a6about getting more patients.”\u009d Take a moment and read his whole rant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From James Grant: I finally got around to reading iMonk’s rant on the ten year focus on evangelism in the SBC. It is well worth the read. I agree with him. The last thing the SBC needs to do is focus on evangelism. There are a lot of other things the SBC should be focusing … Continue reading Will Evangelism Cure the SBC?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,4,70,19,52,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-events","category-denominations","category-evangelism","category-sbc-news","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}