Week 10: Wednesday

In today’s class Ryan spent time wrapping up several of the loose ends and discussions that we have had during the class this quarter. The most enjoyable aspect of today’s class was a discussion that I have been having with several people for quite sometime, and that is the idea of “presence evangelism” and this is the idea that when we present the gospel, coupled with other works of service, “gifts”, or “charity”, is it still truly the gospel, because what we are in fact presenting is the acceptance of an idea motivated out of reciprocation or commerce. Instead when we present the gift of presence, the gift of “charity”, without the caveat of gospel presentation and acceptance, then in actuality what we are presenting is a quite subversive ideal that will, in its counter-cultural nature, spark conversation and the presentation of gospel, but this presentation resembles more of a conversation, rather than a cold-call during family dinner. It is only with a free gift that we can adequately present the gospel, because we ourselves received this gospel freely.