In 1998, I had the privilege of working with Dr. D.A. Carson and others from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in co-sponsoring "Telling the Truth", a three-day conference focused on evangelism in a postmodern age. As I shall be presenting a two-part workshop at
Encounter '09 conference in Greensboro on "Evangelism in a Postmodern Age", I picked up "
Telling The Truth" (the book which compiled our conference talks from '98) to see what has changed -- what we have learned since then. Interesting exercise that will perhaps (if I'm ambitious enough) will provide the grist for future blogs.
The first chapter is by Ravi Zacharias exploring, "An Ancient Message, through Modern Means, to a Postmodern Mind".
The most memorable line from Ravi's talk was the probing question,
"How do we communicate the gospel to a generation that hears with it eyes and thinks with its feelings?"
A decade later, is that still the question? Does that hit the bulls eye in defining the issue?
If so, are we communicating better now than ten years ago? My answer is "definitely" -- but more on why later.
Your thoughts?
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Ravi's quote is featured prominently in our VACA for support-raising! It's still on-target.
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