Evangelism & Discipleship

Presbyterian panelists explore the role evangelism plays in Christian formation

The role that evangelism plays in Christian formation and in other facets of Christian ministry was at the center Tuesday of a thoughtful and lively edition of The Scattered Church, offered periodically by the offices that make up the Theology, Formation & Evangelism ministry area of the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

‘Love makes room’

For the Rev. Jennifer Burns Lewis, “love makes room” is the umbrella of her theology. Along with Micah 6:8 — to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with our God — it is the shaping framework of her work as the vision and connecting leader of the Presbytery of Wabash Valley.

This PC(USA) church in Stillwater runs deep

Youth and young people are not the future of the church. They are the church, as viewers of the August edition of “Being Matthew 25” learned Thursday.

‘Think and laugh and be compelled to reimagine’

The Rev. Shanea D. Leonard, national coordinator for Gender & Racial Justice in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), knows what it’s like to lament by being honest before God about the pain they have experienced in the church.