Real Lasting Life
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Ray Jones is the Coordinator for Evangelism for the Presbyterian Church (USA). He has served the church as a pastor for twenty-five years. He has a heart for helping people grow in the love of God in Jesus Christ. This growth always includes our words and deeds. He is married and has two grown daughters. He has experienced training and education at Furman University, Columbia Theological Seminary, the church, and through living in the world.
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- The Engine of the Church
- My Witnesses
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- The Ministry of Making Disciples
- A New Creation
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A Way of Life
Len Sweet has written a thoughtful and important new book on evangelism. I am only halfway through the book, but I am already captivated by the way in which he is presenting evangelism as a natural part of a growing Christian's faith journey. He writes in Nudge, "Evangelism as we know it hasn't worked. Either evangelism is so aggressive you want to get a restraining order, or else evangelism is so restrained you want to call it to order. Our strategies have been spectacularly useless at best, counterproductive at worst" (P. 35).
Sweet contends that evanglism is all about …
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June 14, 2011
Making Disciples
The church is called to make disciples. Growing disciples of Jesus Christ share faith and serve others in ways that the Holy Spirit uses to rescue and reconcile a broken world. Discipleship begins with Jesus. "It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for" (Ephesians 1:11 The Message).
What if all our church activity started with Jesus? If our worship, time with Scripture, fellowship, and prayer took us more deeply into following Jesus, would we be more of a "sent" people? As long as we continue to try to fix and tweak …
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