Thursday, August 10, 2006

The Celtic Way of Evangelism

http://www.navigators.org/us/ministries/metro/articles/items/0E97EF24C63B2AC1E0440003BAAC64DB

[The Navigators] 10 Jul 2006--This book has been cited by several other authors, such as Rick Richardson (Evangelism Outside the Box) and Dan Kimball (The Emerging Church), because there are many parallels between the situation Saint Patrick faced in taking the Gospel to the Irish and the situation the (modern) church faces in taking the Gospel to the emerging postmodern generation. The leaders of the Roman church tended to assume that a population had to be civilized enough to be Christianized, i.e. civilization was a prerequisite to Christianization. A Christianized population was expected, in time, to read and speak Latin, to adopt other Roman customs and to do church "the Roman way." Hunter writes....

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