Is Evangelism a Sin?

I hope you like the snappy suit and groomed profile of the evangelist beaming at you here! Well, evangelism takes a whole range of guises and, not unlike that closely associated word "evangelical", is in danger of becoming a dirty word in our plural age. On Tuesday 10th June, Global Connections are organising a day seminar looking at aspects of evangelism and ethics as they arise in various contexts where the church may be challenged to think again. We have a stellar line-up and, if budgets allow, may even arrange for white silk suits to be worn by each speaker!
Ben Edson: will be reflecting on the particular context of spiritual searchers and how evangelism can have any substance in a pic'n mix consumerist, plural context.
Robin Thomson of South Asian Concern: will consider the current efforts by some senior Hindu leaders to ban evangelism as they seek to enforce pluralism as the only doctrine, as they see it, that can sustain peaceful coexistence between faiths.
A Muslim background Christian will talk of her experiences of conversion and the ethics of evangelism amongst Muslims when the costs to new converts, their families and communities, can be so high.
Andrew Smith of Youth Encounter will be reflecting on our language of evangelism and conversion as it addresses the ethics of work amongst children
Rev Dr John Corrie, lecturer at Trinity College, Bristol, will offer a summing up biblical reflection that offers a way forward for ethical evangelism in our plural age.

It's a cheap day, £15 all in, at the headquarters of CPAS in Warwick, the West Midlands. See details here: go to the Forums section, into "Faith to Faith" once you have joined Global Connections. Big issues for the church in mission....there'll be times for discussion and a panel debate. Be there!

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I read your blogs with interest. In case you haven't taken note of my recent book on the ethics of evangelism, I thought I would alert you to it. "The Ethics of Evangelism: A Philosophical Defence of Proselytizing and Persuasion" (Paternoster & IVP Academic, 2011)