Mission? What mission?

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.