Name: Mission Shaped Evangelism
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Author: Steve Hollinghurst
ISBN: 9781853118425

Why is the Church of England report Mission Shaped Church so profoundly influential? Most likely because it highlights a real crisis  evangelism is simply not working in todays pluralist, post-Christian, capitalist culture.

Mission-Shaped Evangelism is a landmark book that will renew our understanding of what the gospel - literally the good news about Jesus  is for todays cultures. It begins with a key challenge  do we believe God speaks in the cultural context, or only in the Christian tradition?

Part One- Listening to God in the cultural context explores the radically changing culture in which the church exists today, the rise of new spiritualities, the secularisation of society and religions increasingly dubious public image.

Part Two- Listening to God in the Christian tradition looks at key periods in Christian history as responses to cultural changes, from the ancient pagan world to modernist faith. What can we learn from the lessons of the past?

Part Three moves from theory to practice and tells great stories where innovative evangelism is taking place  from supermarkets to festivals to the internet.

Steve Hollinghurst is Researcher in Evangelism at the Churchs Army Sheffield Centre and has written on new spiritualities.

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Steve is a mine of information and very articulate in the way he puts it over. Here in his first major work he covers a vast range of topics re the Gospel in contemporary culture. Collecting facts and figures, research information, and a wide range of helpful source material he argues that even evangelism needs to be more mission shaped. By this he means engaging with the new spiritualities and 'Today’s Temples and Market Places', not in terms of open air preaching but real engagement with people and issues on the ground. The whole premise is probably summarised on p168, 'cross cultural evangelism is not about changing the clothing of an explanation of Jesus' death, but finding which parts of the whole story are "good news" within each culture and starting from these to explore the rest'. I warmly commend it.

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