How (not) to evangelize

In his second in a series of sermons entitled "Before a Watching World: How (not) to evangelize?" Phil Kniss told the Park View Mennonite congregation that the communities of hope called to tell the good news "will embody the deep truth of the gospel in our lives and thrust into conversations about this life that we live. 'Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands it, accounting of the hope that is in you, the Apostle wrote in I Peter 3, but do it with gentleness and reverence.'" In this broken, sinful and cynical world that is grasping for some shred, some little piece of hope, a people that live in hope will stick out, he asserted. That is our good news, our shalom.