Church Last

Topic

evangelism

5 essays, newest first.

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Conversations, Not Campaigns

The campaign mindset — targets, scripts, closings — corrupts witness even when it works. On the slower grammar of real conversations, and why efficiency is the wrong measure entirely.

DO March 9, 2026 · 2 min
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Unqualified

“I don't know enough” is the most common reason Christians stay silent — and the least biblical. On the difference between a witness and an expert, and why your incompleteness is part of the testimony.

RK January 5, 2026 · 2 min
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The Myth of the Professional Evangelist

We assume evangelism is a specialist's job requiring training, answers, and a stage. The first witnesses were fishermen and women returning from a tomb — and that was the design, not a bug.

RK November 9, 2025 · 2 min
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The Commission Was Addressed to You

The Great Commission is routinely read as a corporate mandate for the institutional church. The grammar, the audience, and the earliest practice all say otherwise.

AN RK October 2, 2025 · 2 min
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Church Last: The Thesis

The opening statement of the whole project: the gathered church is the destination of conversion, not its engine — and the commission to witness was addressed to you.

AN September 14, 2025 · 2 min

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