One of the friends from my fellowship posted something from Stanley Hauerwas. (I don't know who Hauerwas is =P, but it's something worth thinking about.)
Jesus's instructions for the disciples' mission, however, remain true for any understanding of Christian evangelism. Too often concern for the status of the church tempts some to employ desperate measures to insure that the church will remain socially significant or at least have a majority of the population. But the church is not called to be significant or large. The church is called to be apostolic. Faithfulness, not numbers or status, should be the characteristic that shapes the witness of the church. Indeed it may well be the case in our time that God is unburdening the church so that we can again travel light.
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