Evangelism and Discipleship Notes

I messed up the Freedomize URL. It should be correct now. I said earlier today that Freedomize�s worship band was amazing. I understated what I said. They are even better than that. I hope they put out a worship CD. I would love to hear it. I wonder if much of their stuff was written by them. Speaking of worship CD�s, I need to ask Jared for Next Church�s worship CD. I would enjoy hearing it.

Brian is now talking about evangelism� He is sharing a story from his book, �More Ready Than You Realize� about the harpist. He just about put about 100 words on a PowerPoint slide.

- Behind harsh words are some real interesting questions
- People don�t respond to Christianese. We can�t talk like that. Part of the struggle is that people don�t follow our church language
- �Conservative� could become more offensive to people as liberals are to some other.
- Christianity is a failed religion. Apologetics need to more about apology. Enormous power in apologizing. See the example of Pope John Paul II
- Postmodernity is afraid of global destruction
- Problems of language � gay rights, we don�t talk about the same thing. Civil rights
- Problems with Christianity are also with our Christian subculture. Accepting Jesus means to accept modernity and become a worse person.
- Belong before they believe - George Hunter, Celtic Way of Evangelism
- Anam � Celtic for soul

Panel on evangelism was excellent

- What would happen if we spent 5 hour a week on our neighborhood? Transforming housing developments into communities.

Brian is talking on Discipleship

What if we traded in our idea of being Christians for the idea of apprentices of Jesus?

Thought bomb: To learn from example is to submit to authority. We learn what we can not even articulate.

Assimulation of knowledge can only be picked up by doing together.

What if the art of being a Christian has been lost and we only have the rule books to lecture on.

Dominant approach to apprenticship is �sin management� where we develop Christian vampires where we want Jesus for his blood and nothing else.

Matthew 28 � some doubted � our confidence goes up and down.
You study under a master so you can play like the master and eventually take on apprentices yourself.

Master and apprentices are the language of our story

Lord � not just about his deity but as the Master where he had apprentices and now they have apprentices.

Teaching the art of life.

�Of all peoples� � ethnos and ethos. Judaism was for Jews but Christ expanded it.