Archive for May 14th, 2007
Moltmann on evangelization
Quotes on evangelization as an invitation to God’s future, from Jurgen Moltmann’s Jesus Christ for Today’s World:
"Up to now, the purpose for evangelization was either to extend Christian civilization, or to propagate the church, or to spread one’s own experience of faith. This was not mission in the perspective of the end — not the mission of God’s kingdom — not an invitation to God’s future. " — pg 145.
"Evangelization is an invitation, nothing more than that and nothing less. It is not instruction, and not an attempt at conversion either. It is a plea: ‘Be reconciled with God!’ The people who consciously or unconsciously witness to the gospel, and the people who are commissioned to proclaim it, have no authority except the authority of a plea." — pg 146.
– Amicus Dei
