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How evangelicals rationalize their predatory ‘friendship evangelism’
Most folks don’t like to take social risks. Evangelicals aren’t any exception to that rule. So they seek out ways to cushion those risks as much a they can.
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‘Who’s Your One’ campaign is everything wrong with the Southern Baptist Convention
A traveling evangelist has begun upselling a failed 2014 evangelism campaign called “Who’s Your One?” Today, let me show you what this campaign is, who started it and who adopted it and why, how it failed, and most importantly what it tells us about the Southern Baptist Convention as a whole.
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Beach Reach: Followup as Fake Friendship
Hi and welcome back! We’re quickly approaching the end of our Beach Reach training. Now, our trainers need us to know how to perform follow-up with our sales marks. Whether we failed or succeeded — though, let’s be honest here, we largely utterly failed — to make any sales, follow-up Read more
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Unchurched: Some of Lee Strobel’s Best Friends
Today, let’s look at Lee Strobel’s totally real atheist friends — and how his own words completely destroy that claim.
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Unchurched: Friendship Evangelism, Lee Strobel Style
Yesterday, I offered you an overview of the personal-level strategy he suggests, friendship evangelism. Today, I want to show you Lee Strobel’s absolutely callous and blatantly opportunistic twist on that old, old strategy.
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Unchurched: An Overview of Friendship Evangelism
Today, I’ll show you what friendship evangelism is — and what lies its practitioners tell themselves to justify inflicting it on others.
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Unchurched: Lee Strobel’s Action Plan (Doesn’t Work)
In Unchurched, Lee Strobel sought to teach his tribe about those strange space aliens who weren’t part of church culture. More than that, even, he claimed to offer the tribe an ‘action plan’ for persuading those space aliens to join their churches. Today, let’s see exactly what this ‘action plan’ involves — and then consider its effectiveness.
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Magic Christians Seek the Perfect Sales Pitch in ‘Only God Can’
Today, let me show you what the Perfect Sales Pitch looks like–and why Magic Christians can’t let go of the idea.
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What Conversion Actually Did For the Women of ‘Only God Can’
Even in a movie made by Christians to completely pander to other Christians, Only God Can peddles neat, tidy endings for these converts that don’t even halfway look like reality. Today, we look at their conversions–and where they’d likely end up in the real world.
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The Jesus Beatings Shall Continue Until Salvation Improves (Only God Can)
Lately we’ve been talking about the horrible Christian movie Only God Can. In it, we encounter a great many tropes beloved of evangelicals. And one of their very favorites–said on that Zorg voice of course–involves how they see their god engaging with humanity. See, he’s got a novel approach to winning friends and influencing people: he destroys their lives till they bend the knee. Yep! Today, my friends, we look at the Jesus beatings that shall continue until salvation improves!