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Finished reading: Evangelism as a Lifestyle by Jim Petersen 📚

The best book I’ve read on evangelism. Petersen offers a really useful distinction between “proclamation” and “affirmation” evangelism. He says everything that I want a book to say on this topic. Highly recommend.

Sabbath Notes for Future Self (inspired by Marva Dawn's Keeping the Sabbath Wholly)

  • Things to plan before each Sabbath:
    1. Meals
    2. Sunday obligations
    3. Creative Time
    4. Outings/Events?
  • Rest from:
    1. Work & School
    2. Housework/Cleaning/Organizing
    3. Planning/Strategizing/Calendar
    4. Technology
    5. Shopping/Acquiring
    6. Cooking (as a chore)
    7. Exercise (as a chore)
  • Focus on:
    1. Spiritual Refreshment & Worship
    2. Rest/Recreation
    3. Relationships/Connection
    4. Creativity/Spontaneity/Imagination
  • Aids to rest:
    1. Music
    2. Nature
    3. Art
    4. Smells (candles, fragrances)
    5. Reading (devotional material, poems, prayers, stories, novels, short stories)
    6. Making fires
    7. Easy meals with friends
  • Ceasing:
    1. Work
    2. Productivity and accomplishment
    3. Anxiety, worry, and tension
    4. Trying to be God
    5. Possessiveness
    6. Enculturation
    7. The humdrum and meaninglessness
  • Resting:
    1. Spiritual
    2. Physical
    3. Emotional
    4. Intellectual
  • Embracing:
    1. Intentionality
    2. The values of the Christian community
    3. Time instead of space
    4. Giving instead of requiring
    5. Our calling in life
    6. Wholeness (shalom)
    7. The world
  • Feasting:
    1. On the eternal
    2. With music
    3. With beauty
    4. With food
    5. With affection
    6. And festival

C. S. Lewis:

One is sometimes (not often) glad not to be a great theologian; one might so easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

Trooper was not being especially hospitable to our friend Carlos last night