The ‘E-word,’ God and the Unchurched

"The 'E-word,' God and the Unchurched" by Evan Silverstein. Presbyterian News Service. September 11, 2008.

In many mainline Protestant churches the “E-word” (evangelism) has seemingly replaced sex and money as the most unspeakable of terms, according to author and researcher Martha Grace Reese.

The E-word makes some pastors cringe and leaves many church members pondering how and why they should share their faith with the unchurched, she said.

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“Most of the people who are really doing the great evangelism are doing it out of so much love, the sense that there really is a God, and it really matters that people know that because that’s the structure of reality, that’s the way the world’s put together,” said Reese...

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