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The Celtic Way of Evangelism by George Hunter III looks at the remarkably effective history of evangelism, discipleship and church planting in the time of St. Patrick in the late 4th and early 5th centuries A.D. It contrasts the Roman and Celtic forms of evangelism as they grew throughout northern Europe.
Under Patrick’s mission efforts, some 700 churches were planted , 1000 priests were ordained, 30-40 of Ireland’s 150 tribes became substantially Christian. Patrick was the first public man to speak against slavery, and within his lifetime, the Irish slave trade came to a halt. His communities modeled the Christian way of faithfulness, generosity, and peace. (p.23)
The book ends with two great quotes.
First is this ancient Chinese poem:
Go to the people.
Live among them.
Learn from them.
Love them.
Start with what they know.
Build on what they have.
The final paragraph of the book reads this way:
The supreme key to reaching the West again is the key that Patrick discovered – involuntarily but providentially. The gulf between church people and unchurched people is vast, but if we pay the price to understand them, we will usually know what to say and what to do; if they know and feel we understand them, by the tens of millions they will risk opening their hearts to the God who understands them.
The book begins with a look at Patrick’s conversation and call to return to Ireland.
The book is excellent, brief, readable, and a good mix of history and missiology. But the book is more effective to us than simply as a history of Celtic Christianity in teaching us how to be missionally-minded in the culture surrounding us
Under Patrick’s mission efforts, some 700 churches were planted , 1000 priests were ordained, 30-40 of Ireland’s 150 tribes became substantially Christian. Patrick was the first public man to speak against slavery, and within his lifetime, the Irish slave trade came to a halt. His communities modeled the Christian way of faithfulness, generosity, and peace. (p.23)
The book ends with two great quotes.
First is this ancient Chinese poem:
Go to the people.
Live among them.
Learn from them.
Love them.
Start with what they know.
Build on what they have.
The final paragraph of the book reads this way:
The supreme key to reaching the West again is the key that Patrick discovered – involuntarily but providentially. The gulf between church people and unchurched people is vast, but if we pay the price to understand them, we will usually know what to say and what to do; if they know and feel we understand them, by the tens of millions they will risk opening their hearts to the God who understands them.
The book begins with a look at Patrick’s conversation and call to return to Ireland.
The book is excellent, brief, readable, and a good mix of history and missiology. But the book is more effective to us than simply as a history of Celtic Christianity in teaching us how to be missionally-minded in the culture surrounding us
This is a historical fiction novel, enfleshing the life and story of Saint Brendan the Navigator. Brendan is one of the best-known Celtic saints and perhaps best known for his adventuring spirit, which took him on sea voyages that went as far as Greenland and quite possibly North America from the northwest coast of the US and perhaps to Florida.
I'm familiar with Brendan's story, and this novel does the story great justice. It's engaging and entertaining, playful even.
I'm even more impressed with the author of the story and will certainly read more Buechner.
4.5 stars. I'm rounding up because it starts and ends well.
I'm familiar with Brendan's story, and this novel does the story great justice. It's engaging and entertaining, playful even.
I'm even more impressed with the author of the story and will certainly read more Buechner.
4.5 stars. I'm rounding up because it starts and ends well.
This edition is NOT the Life of Columba by Adamnan, the key hagiography of St. Columba. It is instead an early 20th-century biography/hagiography which uses Adamnan's tale and others as its core.
It lovingly tells the Columba story of life in Ireland, the Battle of the Books, exile to Iona, evangelism of the Picts and others in Scotland, and then the death of Columba. It's a nice, simple, clear story and a worthwhile addition to the bookshelf.
It lovingly tells the Columba story of life in Ireland, the Battle of the Books, exile to Iona, evangelism of the Picts and others in Scotland, and then the death of Columba. It's a nice, simple, clear story and a worthwhile addition to the bookshelf.
