Quote for Reflection (Sunday, August 8, 2021)

“The story of God in Christ is the heart of all evangelism, and this story has to be told, for the life of the present church never fully reveals the love and holiness and power of God in Christ. The telling of this story is an inescapable mandate for the whole church; word accompanies deed as the kingdom throws its light ahead of its arrival and men and women seek to live in that light. The proclamation of the Good News is the announcement that the kingdom of God is at hand, a challenge to repent and an invitation to believe. Preaching expects conversion. Conversion implies a new relationship both with God and with others. It is individual and societal, vertical and horizontal, faith and works.”

James A. Scherer quoted in Alan Bailyes “Evangelical and Ecumenical Understandings of Mission”