Nov 20 2012  Adventures In Revland: Anti-Evangelism  Original
post at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/hYvZi/~3/qBGz9Vk
iMA0/anti-evangelism.html  We all have "Back to Egypt" people in
our congregations.  Those who would rather go back to the way it
"once was" because that is where they felt safest and secure.
 These people tend to be in the way of church transformation but
there is something that is even deeper than mere personality.
 It is ways that congregations deter growth and new people come
in without even knowing it.  It is something in the DNA that
only a new comer can probably see.  It is the ways congregations
practice Anti-Evangelism.  At my retreat last week I was
introduced to this phrase and I was a little suspicious of it at
first.  I know people are scared of the word evangelism but
churches actively trying to practice anti-evangelism?  As I
listen to the preacher preach the current book I am reading, 10
Temptations of Church, echoed some of what he was saying.  A
church in decline will