Fight Club 6: Who Let the “Rabid Dogs of Evangelism” Out?????

In the last three editions of the “Fight Club” series I looked at worship and its role in evangelical Protestant-dom.  I started out by saying that our emphasis upon worship songs is just not right, and that if we had any awareness of the disconnect between what we are and what God is, then our worship would be vastly different.  I then said that true worship is a sacrifice, and if it is an acceptable sacrifice then God will consume it.  We each have one life to live and it is being sacrificed to something and consumed by something–is it God or is it the American dream of happiness, health, status, financial security, and an abundance of material possessions?

Finally I said that true worship is for God but takes us ultimately into engagement with other people and the world around us.  If we truly love God then we have no choice but to love the people around us–all people created in His image who are unique expressions of some facet of His personality and whom He loves and desires to be in relationship with.  Worship that leads us into our own solitary worship islands of “Jesus and me and who gives a s–t about anyone else?” is just not good enough.

In this edition I wish to look at evangelism.