Everyday Life Evangelism

We’re working our way through our One Purpose sermons series at Lake Merced Church.

Yesterday the sermon was about declaring the Good News of Jesus in everyday life.

All disciples of Jesus are called to preach the Good News to all creation, but often people don’t because they’re intimidated by the idea of “preaching.”

What does it really mean to be a “preacher?” That and more is discussed in this lesson.

Here’s a link if you’d like to listen:

For more like this visit the westcoastwitness.com Sermon Archive.

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Stringfellow Enters Blogosphere

Lynn Stringfellow learned to read and write and is busy making posts on his new blog (inaugural post here).

Lynn is the two-time winner of the westcoastwitness.com Inflammatory Commenter Award. That being said, you’ll want to add  tulsaoilman.wordpress.com to your favorites list. It’s bound to be interesting reading.

Seriously though: the heart Lynn and Carol Stringfellow have for people – particularly college students – is nothing short of amazing. They’ve been an inspiration to Airiel and I for many years and will continue to be until the end of our days together.

If you haven’t already heard, Lynn and Carol are in the process of raising money to cover expenses for their new ministry of nurturing nationwide campus ministry plants (learn more here).

I strongly believe in what they’re planning to do, am committed to contributing financially to their work, and would like you to consider being so as well. It doesn’t matter if it’s as little as $10.00 per month – every little bit helps!

We’ve put in dent in the fundraising goal, but still have about $82,000 we need to raise.

It will come together as people own this mission, and more and more are as time passes!

If you’re interested in being one of those people, email campusministryunited@gmail.com expressing interest and you’ll be contacted quickly.

Can you help?

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ViralBloggers Review: Coffeehouse Theology

I just finished thumbing through Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting on God in Everyday Life by Ed Cyzewski. 

What began as the independent study of a seminary student interested in the interaction between theology and everyday life ended in this book.

I appreciate several things about Coffeehouse Theology, most of all this: Cyzewski repeats over and over the point that cultivating good theology involves not only knowing God, but knowing ourselves as well. Every person, regardless of who they are or where they come from, will tend toward seeing God through the lens of their own culture and experiences. If one is not careful, God can be turned in to a product of one’s own culture that is not God at all, but an idol. Cyzewski offers practical insight to combat this tendency, plus much more.

If you’re interested in doing an introductory study on the relationship between theology and culture, this may be a good book to start with as Cyzewski covers a lot of bases.

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