Evangelism

Today in class we read "The New Macedonia: A revolutionary New Era in Mission begins" by Ralph D. Winter. Honestly, I don't enjoy reading long articles. Books? love them! articles? put me to sleep. I already have the attention span of a five year old and in the middle of the day it kind of just gets worse.. So I really wasn't a fan of this article... maybe its just because a much older man wrote it and it felt kind of monotone.. I don't know. Haha so anywaysss...

E1 Evangelism: where a person communicates to his own people - obviously the most potent kind of evangelism. NEAR

E2 Evangelism: begins where the people you have reached are of sufficiently different backgrounds from those of people in existing churches that they need to form their own kind. Involves crossing the frontier between the church and the world and involves crossing the frontier constituted by significant differences of language and culture. CLOSE

E3 Evangelism: greater cultural distance. necessary in the 3rd sphere of Jesus' statement 'to the uttermost part of the earth'. work talk and think in languages and cultures utterly different than those native to the evangelist. most urgent. FAR

Every tribe and tongue has a strong, powerfully evangelizing church in it, and thus an E-1 witness within it, E-2 and E-3 efforts coming from outside are still essential and highly urgent.

"Christian unity cannot be healthy if it infringes upon Christian liberty" do I agree? I don't know. This blog is supposed to be where I can be honest and honestly I don't even know what this means. I've looked at this quote for like five minutes and still don't understand. I'm really good at like Bible and Science and Math but when it comes to English I'm a terrible reader and writer. This quote just makes no sense in my head. This article was painful to read. I am one of the younger people in this class but it seems like everyone reads through these long wordy articles with a breeze. But seriously even if I wanted to read this article and fully understand it I don't know if I could. I don't like these articles because I can't understand them. I get the main point which is good but the actually articles just make my head feel like its about to explode... soo I can't really answer this question from the article because I don't even get it! So I would love to answer this for you.. but I can't. This articles main points were good I just don't really like reading these articles, they are too hard and sort of boring.. sorry this blog kinda sucked.