These quotations will whet your appetite for this new book:

This book is set to revolutionize your understanding of evangelism.

With this first sentence, Leonard Sweet has our attention, helping us fundamentally examine the way we think about sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.

A Biblical understanding of repentance is not red-faced anger
at other people's sins but red-faced embarrassment at my own brokenness
and complicity in the evils and injustices of the world.

Sweet invites us to be powerful evangelists through the meekness that befits Christians who know the power of grace in our own lives.

I define evangelism as "nudge" and evangelists as "nudgers." Evangelism is
awakening each other to the God who is already there.

Evangelism therefore is paying attention. Evangelism is helping one another to wake up to God.

Nudge is a form of relational, not unilateral evangelism. In unilateral
evangelism, you maximize your impact and minimize your vulnerability. In relational evangelism, you are both impacting and being impacted, which means
that the nudger can't escape being nudged.

Leonard Sweet will be with us here in Mississippi for our annual Evangelism Summit on April 2, a live event that will be linked through the web to locations in each of the districts. I hope you will read Nudge in preparation for this time of learning and growing.

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