Title: Biblical perspectives on evangelism : living in a three-storied universe /
Authors: Brueggemann, Walter
Publisher: Abingdon Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Evangelistic work Biblical teaching.
Contents: 1. Evangelism in three unfinished scenes -- The drama in three scenes -- The theological conflict -- The announcement of victory -- The lived appropriation -- A recurring, patterned drama -- Three practical implications -- 2. Outsiders become insiders -- From a troubled, dysfunctional family -- A tired business executive -- A member of the permanent underclass -- Lives redescribed -- Story-based imperatives -- A new, covenantal identity -- 3. Forgetters made rememberers -- The meeting with Ezra -- A gift and a warning -- The high cost of amnesia -- The struggle to remember -- Ezra's reincorporation -- Our forgetting and remembering -- 4. Beloved children become belief-ful adults -- Being with and for our children -- Testimonial answers -- Narratives of saturation -- Narratives which command -- Telling a past/dreaming a future -- A fragile fidelity.