No one went to school to learn how to eat (unless you had etiquette classes or have a physical disability), or breath or see, those are natural functions. Evangelism should be a natural function in our lives something that we and do not have to learn it in schools or seminaries, programs and others. But reality is that churches depend on evangelism/missions curriculum to learn how to do what should be natural in the first place. One time I asked that question to a supervisor why we had to depend on evangelism methodologies? and he said that "because we live in an imperfect world"(obviously the conversation was more than that and I am trying to be faithful to the context of the conversation). Learn evangelism? perfect world? learn missions? who are we kidding! we are sent to an imperfect world to live holy before God in an imperfect among imperfect people. Sadly that is our mentality, we build our little perfect world within the walls of a little perfect "church" (applies for any kind of church, house church, homeless church, mega-church, mini-church, country club church, purpose driven church, purposeless driven church, armenian church, superhypercalvinisticespiralidouciuos church), and build this perfect scenario in which a perfect heathen answers and agrees with our perfect christian questions, questions that are based not on the bible, but on how we perceive the world, and then we close the sale, bingo! yeah right! The gospel message is that Jesus Christ was born, he lived a holy life, he died on a cross and resurrected on the third day, Jesus commanded us to remember and proclaim the gospel every time we "eat the bread and drink the wine". I am going to stretch it a little, announcing the gospel should be as natural as eating and drinking, it should be a natural christian bodily function, and evangelism should be practice by the entire body of Christ in the same proportion that we eat or drink or do any other bodily functions.
By the way, if my evangelism should be proportional to the way I eat, Brazil should have more Christians than non-christians, but it doesn't.
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