Comments on: WTWNC: From Bridge to Onramp – On a Proposed Way to Teach People Missional Evangelism

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By: mick

mick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:09:46 +0000

Thank’s Dave, “spirit and life” ways and means for God’s people always but especially pertinent for us today. I shared the “places to start” section with a brother in Romania this week. He said he is going to preach these to his congregation next Sunday!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:16:18 +0000

I’ve been on this wavelength for years, and one of the foremost questions in my my mind is the extent to which we are “on ramps” not only leading people to Christ, but to the Body of Christ, where they will see His fullness manifest. Hearing about Jesus in abstraction, or experiencing His grace through individuals or families will not hold a candle, I believe, to experiencing His grace in the community of believers united to Christ and one another by the Spirit. My experience bears this out, as home groups can be a powerful context in which non-believers can taste and see the life of Christ. I’m inclined to side with George Hunter’s philosophy of “belong, then believe” (albeit not in a strictly ecclesiastical sense). It also is obviously very messy and vulnerable, when it comes to trying to balance both grace and truth.

By: Mark T. Ryan

Mark T. Ryan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:25:27 +0000

David,
I just found your blog through my contact with Nazarene Theo. Sem.
I can not comment now, but having spent 20 years in Central & South America as a Field Director I was assigned to Spain and have lived there i year. Your blog WTWNC is ringing true to my experience and I have been coming up with similar “preambles and To Do guidelines”.
I am heading to Canada for a week, then Florida for a week, then Illinois for a week, and finally AZ for two weeks before I return to Spain Oct. 12th. I hope to interact with you more in the near future.

Live “THE LIFE”,

Mark T. Ryan

By: Josh Rowley

Josh Rowley — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:10:28 +0000

I like the “onramp” metaphor, and the ideas here are generative.

To the section on listening, I would add something about the importance of learning from the non-Christian neighbor. Leron Shults has put the concern as follows: “[C]hurches can too easily identify their mission as a colonizing of the other. And exclusive focus on the idea that “we” are sent to “them” can reinforce missiologies of aggression and invasion.”