Judith Forgoston
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Keywords: Door-to-door evangelism – curiousness – authenticity
Recently, I got visitors. I could see them through the window as they were walking up my driveway, and my heart sank a little. Their clothes and their posture were giving me an uneasy presentiment. I sighed and asked my poor husband if it could be his turn. I didn’t even ask afterwards whether they managed to convert him or not…
Keywords: Transcendence – Dostoevsky – Les Miserables – C.S. Lewis – Handels Messiah
I received a lot of gifts during my time in bible college. Friendships (one of which turned into marriage!), a sense of family, exciting doctrine and many tools for ministry. But something important was missing, and the more I missed it, the more I realized that with it missing, the rest lost some of its flavor, too…
Keywords: Culturally informed faith – Swiss Christianity – American Evangelicalism
One of the first things I noticed when moving to the U.S. fifteen years ago was how different this country’s relationship to Christianity is from the one I had experienced back in Switzerland. And since few things are healthier for our faith than to realize that not everybody does and sees things the way we do, I set out to explore those differences…
Tags: Gericht - Fundamentalismus - Dekonstruktion - Definition von Christentum - Evangelisation
Ich hätte nie gedacht, dass ich diese Erfahrung jemals machen würde. Aber des Öfteren geschieht es nun, und kommt von ähnlich wohlmeinenden, "radikalen" Christen, wie ich es einmal war. Ich sehe es in ihren Blicken. Ihrem Zögern und Nach-Worten-Suchen. Sie kämpfen einen mir allzu bekannten Kampf: Sie fragen sich, wie sie mich bekehren können. Ich weiß das, weil ich früher auch eine von ihnen war.
