More Ready Than You Realize : Evangelism As Dance in the Postmodern Matrix

by Brian D. McLaren

• ISBN13: 9780310239642
• ISBN10: 0310239648
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

WARNING: This is not just another book on evangelism. This book contains fresh, encouraging, challenging, groundbreaking, and doable ideas you'll want to share with your pastor, your small group or class, your board, or your parachurch organization. OUT: Evangelism as sales pitch, as conquest, as warfare, as ultimatum, as threat, as proof, as argument, as entertainment, as show, as monologue, as something you have to do. IN: Disciple-making as conversation, as friendship, as influence, as invitation, as companionship, as challenge, as opportunity, as conversation, as dance, as something you get to do. You're more ready for this than you realize, and so are your friends!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(8)
I Read Your Book This Morning	19	(10)
Closed-Minded and Bigoted and Brainwashed and Everything Bad	29	(9)
Three Realizations	38	(5)
Err ... I'll Deal with It Later	43	(9)
The Modern View of Christianity vs. the Postmodern View	52	(7)
Reaching Christians for Christ	59	(4)
There's No Conflict in My Mind	63	(5)
It Hasn't Been an Issue Yet, But It Will Be	68	(4)
I Must Be Interpreting It Wrong, Right? (Or, Why Am I Even Trying to Like This?)	72	(5)
Well, Neither Did Jesus	77	(6)
The Idea of Playing for and through God	83	(9)
On the Verge of Tears ... Since I Woke Up	92	(5)
More Ready Than You Realize	97	(6)
Event and Process	103	(9)
The Whole Cosmic Theological Equation	112	(7)
I Don't Understand. Sorry to Bombard You	119	(6)
It's Because I Feel a Little of God's Love	125	(9)
This Overwhelming Disdain for Everything Inside of Me	134	(10)
Feeling Like Your Heart Is Going to Explode	144	(8)
A Whole New Category of Humanity	152	(5)
Afterword	157	(3)
Appendix 1: A Bible Study on Disciple-Making	160	(24)
Appendix 2: Suggestions for Group or Individual Study	184