Many might be aware of the Evangelical Baptist Michael Spencer who blogs at the internetmonk.com and recently wrote a column “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” This Easter his wife is coming into the Catholic Church which he has mentioned before. This week he writes:
I’ll never again nod when someone says Catholics aren’t evangelistic. I’ve had at least 25 appeals for conversion in my mailbox this week. Is there a bounty on my head at the Vatican?
Well Michael there is no bounty up on you and no “soul-winning” count to append to. But I will let our sponsor speak for himself.
* Poster is from my post Recruiting posters for the Church Militant
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Okay, but what is a “a postevangelical reformation Christian in search of a Jesus-shaped spirituality?”
Fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. I’ve not heard of him before. Is he big on the Protestant world? I have heard of the Internet Monk but don’t know much about Mark Spencer. Do you think he has a thought about becoming Catholic himself? Does he see that as the answer to the fall of Evangelicalism? I’m going to read more of his stuff, but wow. Very very fascinating.
It reminds me that the work of GOOD catechesis and doing good art, using culture to transform is part of the answer we as Catholics have. We can’t try to be separate from the world, have our own ghetto as it were, but make use of the good to transform the world. Major difference between Catholics and protestants in practice: We have a both/and approach. They have an us v them approach.
Interesting. very very interesting.