I don’t know how much evangelism is angry evangelism, but from what I’ve seen I’m going to say a non-zero amount.
Some gospelling is angry gospelling. Given that the word gospel means ‘good news’, you’d think that the angry heralding of good news would be absurd. And it is. But that doesn’t stop it happening.
Perhaps you’ve seen it in the wild. Or felt it within. It can rear its head when the stubborn rapscallion you’re seeking to enlighten shows no regard for their soul, when they deny their sinfulness, when they question the Bible, when they thwart your attempts at a straight gospel presentation or when they raise thorny questions of their own. When our approach does not go as planned, when the tables are turned and we’re stumped for an answer, when we’re sneered at or pitied for our unfashionable views, when our conversation partner has the audacity to hold actual non-Christian beliefs – shocking, I know! – in all these situations, how do we feel?
Church events: How wide should we cast the net?
Over the Christmas period our church, like many others, had several evangelistic events. We had the classic Christingle and Nativity …