{"id":42330,"date":"2014-01-29T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_ed_stetzer-cynicism_doesnt_reach_a_lost_world\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T23:30:58","slug":"ct_ed_stetzer-cynicism_doesnt_reach_a_lost_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42330","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Ed Stetzer&#8211;Cynicism Doesn&#39;t Reach a Lost World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The fact is that in one moment, while Christians like me (and maybe like some of you) would be a bit cynical at the simplicity and, yes, the &#8220;hokeyness&#8221; of skywriting evangelism, potentially up to 133,000 people (using the average daily attendance of the four parks in the resort) actually discussed what it means to trust Jesus. That&#8217;s something that should not be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, skywriting is not the ultimate form of evangelism&#8211; that takes feet and faces, not just billboards and signs. Personally, I&#8217;m more concerned that I share Christ with my neighbor than some sort of placard, billboard or flyer.<\/p>\n<p>But at the end of the day, I was convicted that maybe those of us who call ourselves &#8220;missional&#8221; should be a little less cynical about Christians who are trying to get the message out in ways that we might deem cheesy or ineffective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2014\/january\/monday-is-for-missiology-cynicism-doesnt-reach-lost-world.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact is that in one moment, while Christians like me (and maybe like some of you) would be a bit cynical at the simplicity and, yes, the &#8220;hokeyness&#8221; of skywriting evangelism, potentially up to 133,000 people (using the average<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42330\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,440,184,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}