I had lunch with a friend today and we ended up talking a bit about evangelism. I don't think it happens a ton in the American Southern Suburbs - we tend to assume everyone around us knows Jesus and strangely enough, people in the South aren't very friendly after you get past they 'Hey y'all' bit. So we've got some work to do here.
So I was glad when Joe Thorn posted this today. Among the things he said that I wholeheartedly agree with:
The evangescript is perceived as invasive and fake.
The unchurched can spot the evangelistic script before you finish that diagnostic question. If not because they are religiously savvy, it is at least because living in a consumer culture allows them to detect a sales pitch with little effort.
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