Scholars, activists, and practitioners from around the world reflect together on the work of deconstructing former models of evangelism and reconstructing renewed expressions for faithful and effective witness in today’s context.
Soong-Chan Rah reflects on de-construction as a necessary theological expression that moves us toward a re-constructed and re-formed evangelism, driven by our pursuit of Jesus.
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In response to Soong-Chan Rah’s lecture on “Failed Narratives and Imagination in Evangelism,” David Zac Niringiye investigates the underlying narratives of our current conceptions of evangelism and looks to Jesus as our model of de-constructing and meaning-making.
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In her chapel message during the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Ruth Padilla-DeBorst encourages us to be open to witnessing the Spirit and being transformed by the good news in unexpected ways.
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In his lecture “Deconstructing Evangelism Through the Lens of Global Christianity,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Vinoth Ramachandra reflects on Christendom’s influences on global mission and urges us toward new paradigms of mission centered on the person of Jesus.
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In response to Vinoth Ramachandra’s lecture on “Deconstructing Evangelism Through the Lens of Global Christianity,” Kirsteen Kim reflects on sharing the gospel and walking in the way of Jesus.
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In her lecture “Dangerous Women and the Promise of Purity,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Jessica Wai-Fong Wong talks about patriarchy across Christian history and about the holy reordering of relationship and society that Jesus offers.
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In response to Jessica Wai-Fong Wong’s lecture on “Dangerous Women and the Promise of Purity,” Christin Fort shares about the pervasive and insidious nature of patriarchy and explores patriarchy from a psychological perspective.
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In a panel discussion, Al Tizon, Ruth Padilla-DeBorst, and David Zac Niringiye have a conversation about the work of INFEMIT (The International Fellowship for Mission as Transformation), a global fellowship championing diverse churches around the world seeking what it looks like to live as God’s people today.
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In his lecture “Church Planting as Evangelism,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Len Tang describes the particular and effective role church planting plays in the work of evangelism.
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In response to Len Tang’s lecture on “Church Planting as Evangelism,” Liz Rios talks about how church planting helps us reimagine new and innovative ways of doing church.
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In response to Len Tang’s lecture on “Church Planting as Evangelism,” Daniel Yang looks back at the impact of Donald McGavran and the Church Growth Movement, drawing lessons for church planting work today.
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In a panel discussion, Mayra Macedo-Nolan, Jean Burch, Marcos Canales, and Jill Shook discuss models of embodied evangelism, with a particular look at their local context of Pasadena, California.
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In his lecture “Apologetics and Evangelism Through a Global Lens,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Vinoth Ramachandra describes how the church’s witness and apologetics cannot be separated from its ethics and works of justice.
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In response to Vinoth Ramachandra’s lectures on “Apologetics and Evangelism Through a Global Lens,” Ryan Bolger describes the way and witness of the “pilgrim apologist,” who postures themselves in humility and in unity with the other.
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In his lecture on “Intercultural Evangelism Among Caste Hindus,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Vinod John explains the layered dynamics involved between caste Hinduism and religious conversion.
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In his lecture on “Intercultural Evangelism Among Sikhs,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Darren Duerksen talks about the colonial historical context of evangelism among Sikhs and considers a renewed way of engaging with advocacy and love.
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In her lecture “The Magnificat of the Urban Poor Filipina,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Marie Joy Pring-Faraz shares about the powerful witness of Filipina women in urban poor communities—whose experience of communal struggle has shaped their experience of and witness to Christ.
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In his lecture “The Reception and Appropriation of the Bible by the Indigenous Christian Believers in the Philippines,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Tano Emboc speaks about the history of Bible translation and about the particular dynamics of reception of the Bible among indigenous Filipino communities.
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In her lecture “Reflections on Fruitful Practices on Christian-Muslim Relations in the Philippines,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lecture, this presenter teaches about the history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Philippines and shares lessons from her experience and work in that interfaith context.
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In their lecture “Communal Evangelism from the Margins,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Alexia Salvatierra and Brandon Wrencher reflect on the base Christian community and Hush Harbors movements, considering the integration of evangelism and justice in groups led by the poor and marginalized.
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In a panel discussion, Christian Tsekpoe, Amos Jimmy Markin, Rebecca Sey, and Daniel Okyere Walker discuss ways that the Church of Pentecost in Africa has deconstructed colonial forms of evangelism and reconstructed grassroots models in their local contexts.
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In a panel discussion, Odoi Odotoi, Cherry Marcelo, and Lisseth Rojas-Flores discuss effective Christian witness in justice and advocacy work among children and families, particularly drawing from their work with World Vision.
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In her lecture on “Story as Evangelism,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lecture, Lenore Three Stars shares an indigenous perspective on creation theology and reflects on story as a means of evangelism.
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In his lecture “Storytelling and Evangelism,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Neil Taylor shares about developing a practice of storytelling—as he opens up about his own story.
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In his lecture “Art is a Story,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Shin Maeng talks about the power of art to speak to the brokenness and beauty of reality, and to the story of God’s movement amidst it all.
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In her lecture “Dinner for Eight: Great Evangelists,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Priscilla Pope-Levison reflects on various models of evangelism and the key attributes of effective evangelists.
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In his lecture on “A Theology of Celebration and A Theology of Suffering,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Soong-Chan Rah reframes our understanding of evangelism and incarceration through the lens of theologies of celebration and suffering.
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In his presentation on “Incarceration and the Good News,” delivered at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Jarret Keith shares his personal story of incarceration and reflects on how the church must better minister to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.
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In this session of the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Jarret Keith interviews incarcerated students on prison ministry, evangelism, and incarceration.
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In a conversation on “Urban Evangelism and Apologetics,” at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Vince Bantu and Chris Broussard discuss ministry and evangelism in urban contexts—and particularly Black communities—in the United States.
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In a panel discussion at the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Soong-Chan Rah, Kara Powell, and Steve Argue discuss what ministry and evangelism ought to look like among young people today.
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In this panel discussion, concluding the 2023 Missiology Lectures, Soong-Chan Rah, David Zac Niringiye, Jemar Tisby, Jessica Wai-Fong Wong, and Vinoth Ramachandra discuss final thoughts on the work of reconstructing and reforming evangelism today.
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Fuller’s School of Mission and Theology’s 2023 Missiology Lectures centered on the theme “Evangelism Next: Evangelism in a Post-Christendom Era” and was organized by Soong-Chan Rah, Fuller’s Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism. Learn more about the School of Mission and Theology and its programs here.