How Not To Preach

This workshop is a brief field guide on how not to preach and teach the gospel in a secular age.

By:: Timothy Blackmon
Tags:: preaching, symposium 2015
Video: posted on March 5, 2015

Many of my friends have a very different take on life. They hope to find personal significance without God. The gospel story I preach seems neither plausible or all that relevant. Philosopher Charles Taylor explains "we are now living in a spiritual supernova, a kind of galloping pluralism on the spiritual plane."

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