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Article: Sider challenges 'comfortable' Mennonites
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- Canadian Mennonite
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- April 16, 2007
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Steinbach, Man.
The great divide in the Evangelical world-between evangelism and social action-is "unfaithful to the gospel of Jesus," according to Ron Sider, who brought his message that the power of the gospel is in the integration of social action and evangelism to Steinbach Evangelical Mennonite Church last month.
In his first lecture, "Overcoming one-sided Christianity," Sider anchored his presentations in a classic orthodox Christianity, arguing that a dichotomy between social action and evangelism is a result of a skewed theology that reflects an unbiblical choice between salvation as an individualized personal faith or salvation as redemption of systemic/structural brokenness. He ...