From Four Laws to Four Circles?
Posted by Pastor Dan Masshardt at 7/8/2008 1:39 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
A new evangelistic tool?
From Christianity Today:
"James Choung, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, set out to help college students explain the gospel to their friends, he turned to the most beloved tool in an engineer's arsenal: the napkin diagram. Choung, who now serves as the divisional director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in San Diego, has spent his life in ministry on and around college campuses, where Christians today are met with a paradoxical and perplexing combination of suspicion and openness."
Choung has developed a new gospel presentation using 4 circles that can be drawn and explained on a napkin.
We were designed for good
We are damaged by evil
We are restored for better
We are sent together to heal
From Christianity Today:
"James Choung, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, set out to help college students explain the gospel to their friends, he turned to the most beloved tool in an engineer's arsenal: the napkin diagram. Choung, who now serves as the divisional director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in San Diego, has spent his life in ministry on and around college campuses, where Christians today are met with a paradoxical and perplexing combination of suspicion and openness."
Choung has developed a new gospel presentation using 4 circles that can be drawn and explained on a napkin.
Read the CT interview with Choung HERE and please respond in the comments if you'd like.
You can see a video demonstration HERE.
I read this article in Christianity Today over the weekend. I was impressed by the simplicity of Choung's presentation and the fact that it goes beyond salvation and emphasizes our life in Christ beyond conversion. Most of the traditional tools used in sharing the Gospel do not include much about discipleship or the importance telling others the "good news." This may be the right tool in reaching Postmodern for Christ. The only drawback that I could see was that (at least in the article) Choung used little Scripture in presenting his case. That may make this tool difficult for some to accept.
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