>> His life and ministry offer lessons for United Methodists today. Patrick demonstrated that we as Christians have something worth sharing, even at great hardship, said Jim L. Papandrea, assistant professor of church history at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, a United Methodist institution outside Chicago. While we live in a world where we value religious tolerance, we should not let our aversion to unethical forms of proselytizing force us to go to the other extreme and completely abandon evangelism, Papandrea said.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:07:04 +0000