PPT-Postmodernism The 21 st Century’s Challenge to Evangelism in America

Ethical Theism Absolute truth good Absolute God History of Thought Modernism Renaissance Enlightenment Industrial Revolution Theory of Evolution History of Thought Man arbitrates truth Empirical science solves problems. Welcome!. Adoption and Evangelism. Who is God?. What is salvation?. The first thing you should know about God is that he is a person.... God is like a Father.... God’s wrath is as eternal as his love..... Evangelism Department. East Caribbean Conference of . SDA. Evangelist . Claudius Morgan. The priority of personal evangelism was molded by Jesus.. He did not delegate the work of winning souls to His disciples, while reserving the task of preaching to the multitudes.. I. What are some of the main models for evangelism that have been put forth in the last few decades?. A. . Confrontational. Evangelism. 1. This is the more traditional approach to evangelism programs in the church.. 2017 NGM, WINNEBA. MAN’S unconditional authority. “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground… God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’” Genesis 1:26 and 28. Introduction: Where we are today . Definitions of Evangelism – Good and Bad. Biblical Context for Defining Evangelism . . WHERE WE ARE AT TODAY. Motivation or Method. ? . “. When men have the will to speak of their Lord, they find no shortage of ways in which to do it. Indeed, it is the motivation of these men and women which impress us more than their methods.”. Against Modernism . “Postmodernism” in the 1950’s and 1960’s began as a revolt against “Modernism” . “Modernism” was characterised by a deep suspicion of the popular which it considered “conventional” and “bourgeois”. Defining. Modernism. “I haven’t changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it…It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That’s what modernism means to me.”. Introduction . - The 21. st. Century, especially the . _______, . is influenced by Postmodernism. . - Postmodernism influences much of what we see in . ________, ___________, . and . ___________. . - Postmodernism is undergirded by . Foundation: Evangelism Handbook. Chapter 1. “The North American church is suffering from severe mission amnesia. It has forgotten why it exists.” . --Reggie McNeal. The MISSIONAL SHIFT. “’Missional’ is the noun “missionary” modified to be an adjective. . . . If [churches] study and learn language, become a part of the culture, proclaim the good news, be the presence of Christ, and contextualize biblical life and church for that culture—they are a missional church.”. Introduction . - The 21. st. Century, especially the _______, is influenced by Postmodernism. . - Postmodernism influences much of what we see in ________, ___________, and ___________. . - Postmodernism is undergirded by ______________. . The 1980s and Beyond. John Keenan john.keenan@coventry.ac.uk. Theory check-up. Read. Understains. . Words in Ads . Freedom . Captains of Consciousness. Decoding Advertisements. Watch. Century of the Self and Ways of Seeing . Introduction to Communication Theory. Comm. 1510-01. M R 4-7:50 PM. Prof. . Matt Rolph. A buzzword … but what does it mean?. Post-atomic uncertainty. One conventional explanation of postmodernism suggests that it arose in response to the discovery of the devastating power of the atomic bomb, and the uncertainty about authority thereby created.. IEffective Method for Soul-winningin the Seventh-day Adventist Church in NigeriaPhilemon O AmanzeChigemezi N WoguABSTRACTThe rapid upsurge in the use of information technology . Dr. Tomás Cobo Castro. Vice . President. . Spanish. General Medical Council. . UEMS in Latin America: a new challenge. Summary. Accreditation. . System. in . Spain. – SEAFORMEC.. New . agreement .