I stumbled across this article today regarding a “new” line of dialogue between Christians and atheists. The article details a former pastor and his new “ministry“. Check that out (particularly the “about us“) and also a spin-off site that they launched called ChurchRater. Yes, that’s right, you can go visit a church and then rate it. Somehow this is supposed to help spread the gospel. Their purpose statement, which includes an interesting definition of evangelism, is as follows: “OTM seeks to make evangelism (helping people to connect with God) doable, practical and fun for ordinary Christians … what we call reinventing evangelism.”

My question is this: when evaluating this man and his ministry, how does what Phil said on Sunday in ABF come into play? Do you see the Jesus they advocate as being awesome or Awesome? Why? In what ways? I think it’d be great if we could get some dialogue going on this.