Please turn your Bibles to Luke chapter 19.

As we continue our summer practice of preaching the gospel, if you missed the last few weeks

due to camping or whatever, we would invite you to go back and listen to the podcast as we

put a lot of work into a biblical theology of the gospel as defined not by the American

church. God bless them, slash us, but as defined by Jesus of Nazareth and the writers of the

New Testament and the great tradition of Jesus down through the centuries that spans continents

and ethnicities and generations. Now we're ready to shift gears from what is the gospel to,

okay, with a basic framework in mind, how do we preach the gospel in a city that is for the most

part secular to the core and increasingly at a mortal level at least on a different page than

that of Jesus' vision of human flourishing where a lot of people outside the walls of the church

are hostile to the idea of a gospel of Jesus and a lot of us inside the church are a little

emotionally racked by a bad experience with quote evangelism. What does it look like in our

city and our time? Is it a four spiritual laws tracked or a sermon series where you invite your

friends to church and just pray to heaven that the pastor doesn't screw it out for talk about

politics? Is it passing out CS Lewis and Tim Keller books to every single person you know,

yes, by the way? Or is it a Christian concert with a message in between sets? Is it an

Instagram story drip feed or an apologetics debate where you watch a Christian intellectual

just slay a Darwinian materialist? Hopefully. Or is it a bullhorn on a street corner or a sandwich

board sign or a billboard on the side of i5 with heaven and hell? A lot of us just cringe kind of

hearing some of those examples because those old methods of quote evangelism feel tone

deaf and out of touch with the cultural moment. But what if the preaching of the gospel could

look more like eating a meal in your home with a friend from across the street or gently offering

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