6 results for tag: evangelism

Christian Tracts? Brad Jersak

Question:  I have just finished reading your book A More Christlike God and found it thought-provoking and wonderful. I have been deconstructing my Evangelical faith. I am contacting you to ask if you know of any tracts with this Beautiful Gospel on them. I don't like most of the tracts evangelists use, so I thought I would check with you before trying to reinvent the wheel! I feel burdened to reach the "ripened harvest:" but everyone I know is preaching a gospel of fear dressed up in love! I don't find it easy to stop and speak to people, but I want something I can confidently hand out to them. Response: Thanks for reaching out. I ...

The E-Word Reclaimed: A Good Message & a Good Path – Brad Jersak

“Conversion” isn’t about indoctrination or recruitment or colonizing. It’s an invitation to experience God’s love, joy, peace, hope, and freedom—the healing of our hearts as we join Jesus and each other on his Good Path.

Rethinking Evangelism: “No more yellow pencil religion” – Brad Jersak

This article is about how I moved on from "Attack & Extract" Evangelism.

Turn or Burn? Elder Brother Evangelism – Brad Jersak

"Turn or Burn!" How did the good-news invitation of God's love, revealed in the life message of Jesus, become a bad-news ultimatum, distilled crassly by "Turn or Burn" evangelists? Sure, the hellfire evangelists love to prooftext Jesus' own words from Luke 13:5, “I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.” I'm not at all interested in casting aside Jesus' warnings about humanity's self-destructive trajectories, but somehow they've been twisted as if they are the gospel he preached. That's a gross misrepresentation, and I think I'm beginning to see how that error expanded into an entire pseudo-evangelistic system. A ...

August 2017

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Brad Jersak: Moving On... Faith after Evangelicalism – pg. 1 Brian Zahnd: Vive la Revolution! – pg. 7 Zack Hunt: Do Only Christians Go to Heaven? – pg. 8 Danielle Schroyer: On Wisdom Amidst the Crowd – pg. 11 Brad Jersak: Teaching the Cross to Children – pg. 12 Richard Rohr: Trinitarian Revolution – pg. 14 Greg Albrecht: “Is the Bible 'the Word of God'?" -pg. 15

Spring 2016

Articles: The Jesus Way - p4 Out for Blood? - p7 Golgatha: Collision of Sin and Grace - p13 The verdict Is In... -p14 Jesus at the Gates of Hell - p17 The Importance of Doubt - p19 Strange Land of Dread and Denial - p20 More Than Magazines (2015 Year in Review) -p26 Kissing Evangelism Goodbye - p28 The Jewish Teacher - p29 God Is Not the Witch -p31