Here’s what I can’t figure out: How in the world did Saint Patrick evangelize all of those Druid priests and clan chieftains without a mission statement? After all, history and tradition tell us that he walked around preaching and performed an occasional miracle. But how did he know what his mission was? Aaron D. Wolf, The Mission of Souls: When Experts Attack
Thanks to Ben at The Wittenberg Trail for pointing to the above article by Aaron Wolf at the Chronicles site. Mr. Wolf raises some interesting questions and challenges to modern Evangelical concepts of evangelization and mission, contrasting the wisdom of being “pupose driven” to the pre-marketing (pre-modern) habit of simply proclaiming the Gospel.
Wow. What a concept.
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at 6:54 pm - 7th February 2008 Permalink
About this I’ve drawn my own conclusion.
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[...] Evangelism the old-fashioned way Published 13 February 2008 Academia , College , General , music Tags: academic conferences, antarctica, byzantine chant, evangelism, herding cats, holy week music, missions, orthodox outreach, sacred music, st. patrick, Western saints As long as we’re talking about Western saints, here’s this item from Aaron D. Wolf (what a great name) by way of Ben at the Wittenberg Trail (to whom I’d love to link, but I can’t, because the Wittenberg Trail is evidently a private forum) by way of Alden Swan: Here’s what I can’t figure out: How in the world did Saint Patrick evangelize all of those Druid priests and clan chieftains without a mission statement? After all, history and tradition tell us that he walked around preaching and performed an occasional miracle. But how did he know what his mission was? Aaron D. Wolf, The Mission of Souls: When Experts Attack [...]
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