During today's conversation on back porch theology, we're going to debunk the myth that

faith should be a private matter displayed and discussed only among like-minded individuals,

toting quilted Bible covers and clad in pastel sweater sets.

We're also going to explore two evangelistic accounts in the book of Acts that clarify the

difference between contextualizing the gospel, out of sincere respect for the culture of the people

we get to share the living hope of Jesus with, and capitulating to culture, which all too often

equates Christian evangelism with self-righteous or mean-spirited proselytizing. Dr. DT Niles,

a gifted and humble ecumenical leader and evangelist from Sri Lanka, who passed away in 1970,

taught that compassion must be the catalyst for sharing how we came to find ourselves in God's

embrace, and his simple definition is my all-time favorite. Evangelism is just one beggar telling

another beggar where to find bread. So please grab a cup of coffee and your Bible unless you're

driving or practicing the yo-yo, of course, and come hang out on the porch with us.

Hey, hey, y'all! We want to welcome you back porch family to this week's episode,

a compassionate compulsion, but before we jump into the waters of our content today,

we want to let you know we have a very special, very cute, gray hair. You've got the cutest hair

in the whole world. It's still very blonde. It's still very blonde. We call it bay. It's blonde.

It's bay. Okay, you're here for a laugh, and I bet you know who's here. Ring my bell. Say

hey, bell, hi guys, I'm so glad to be here. Thank you, love her voice and everything.

Ring my bell was coming in to record some other stuff, and she was here when we were recording

the episode, and we were like, bell, we hate only having you for like 10 minutes once a month,

and so we have, we have common deared her to sit in with us on the next couple of recordings,

because she is, you know what I was thinking of with the e-bell. For those of you who haven't

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