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On Evangelism

Why evangelize? Finding an answer to this question has become an urgent task since the Barna Group published findings that suggest that " almost half of practicing Christian millennials say evangelism is wrong ." It seems odd that those who have been saved by Jesus would think it wrong to tell others about him. My guess is that it may have more to do with motivation than with moral reasoning. Moral reasoning might tell us what we ought to do, but it can't tell us how to want to do it. I recently became a foster parent. My wife and I have been talking about it for years and so about a year ago, we finally started the process. Throughout the training and licensing, we kept talking about why we were doing it. We could come up with all sorts of reasons why fostering and adopting are good things to do. But we found it much harder to come up with reasons why we wanted to do it. I wondered what I might say if a friend or family member asked me "what makes you want...