Today’s guest post come to us from Martin Saunders for ChristianityToday.com.
I’m not suggesting that evangelism isn’t vitally important, or that there aren’t good ways of attempting it. However, a mix of our natural embarrassment around the practice, and our culture’s predisposition to quick, easy and painless solutions can mean that we often put aside any commitment to traditional evangelism, and try something else… something easier. And these things, generally speaking, don’t work.
Here’s a few examples of what I mean:
- Twitter – The combination of its inherent brevity and the emboldening effect of being able to hide behind a digital avatar means that when conversation happens between people with opposing views on Twitter, it’s heavy-handed, often unkind and generally unpersuasive. However, since it creates an illusion of broadcasting our views to the receptive masses, we can be fooled into thinking that we’re evangelizing
them. We’re not.
- Arguments – We don’t live in a culture of backing down; if anything social media has enabled us to become more entrenched in our views. So while we might feel awfully righteous when we’re putting that atheist right about the flaws in evolutionary theory or the problem with their view of where morality comes from, we should also be aware that we’re probably actually pushing them further away from open-mindedly exploring the claims of Jesus.
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