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Last time we met up, I showed you a really awful LifeWay study about evangelism. Or rather, I guess, it concerned Christians’ lack of evangelistic fervor. Then, I examined the background of the study. There, we discovered that it simply confirmed what we already knew about Christians’ ongoing and general lack of enthusiasm for person-to-person sales pitches. Today, we examine what’s wrong with the 2019 Discipleship Pathway Assessment. Its flaws tell us something important about its real purpose–and how it fits into Christianity’s ongoing decline.

Today, we examine what’s wrong with the 2019 Discipleship Pathway Assessment survey. Its flaws tell us something important about its real purpose–and how it fits into Christianity’s ongoing decline.

This week, the big news in evangelicalism concerns evangelicals, who still don’t really like evangelizing. Who’d’a thunk? Well, any regular reader of this blog, that’s who! Let’s explore that study–and maybe brainstorm some ideas about why evangelicals seem so reticent to perform the function their leaders insist is every Christian’s #1 task. Today, Lord Snow Presides over a very telling disobedience in Christian ranks.

For a few days now, I’ve been talking about the three major methods of persuasion I see Christians using. Today, though, let’s pull back. Those three methods differ dramatically from what might actually work–at least, on someone like me. I’ll show you what might work, and then–more importantly–show you why Christians don’t even bother trying that.

It turns out that one of the worst-of-the-worst alt-right “good little skeptic” personalities, Sargon of Akkad, finds himself in very big trouble. And it’s trouble anybody could have seen coming. Best of all, it might be trouble he can’t hand-wave away. Today, Lord Snow Presides over a potential downfall. It can’t possibly happen to a more deserving guy, either!

I can see why so many Christian leaders dislike this line of thinking. Feelings–the feelings that spring forth from being loved by a divine parent–represent a profound form of evidence for many Christians, but anybody who’s been Christian for long already knows exactly why feelings constitute a uniquely fallible and unstable base for faith in anything.

I was thinking today about Christians who accuse ex-Christians of treating their god like an automatic teller machine (ATM). They level this accusation at us whenever we remind them that prayer doesn’t do anything in the real world. A while ago, they decided that if we mention this shortcoming, then obviously we deconverted because we didn’t get a pony upon demand. Today, let me show you how I figured out why Christians keep accusing us of this imagined shortcoming.

Come join me on the Road to Emmaus, because today, Lord Snow Presides over a story I never knew while I was Christian.