language of evangelism

i think that has been a major issue in the church for a long time. how do we reconcile the need to tell the stories of our God with the fact that much of the language of the bible has been adopted as negative slang for christians ('born agains") or rejected as too absolutist or exclusive or not PC enough? i think it comes back to what we were talking about in worship the other night. our story with Christ is the thing that we know best and that has the best chance of being heard because it is validated by the fact that it is ours. we aren't telling a "christian story" or a "church story" or even a "bible story", we are telling our story. if it is really ours then the language becomes accessible because it is our language, not language we learned in an evangelism course. the man who was healed of his blindness in john 9 could only say "i once was blind, but now i see". it isn't terribly theological, but to a blind man it is a powerful gospel. i don't know that we need to find new ways to tell the story, i think we just need to find our way to tell it. Jesus was different in every aspect of who he was, but he offered the kingdom in ways that could be understood because he talked about things people understood (lost sons, wheat, bridegrooms)
i think the other part of our "language" is the church. we provide opportunity to see that our story is real and that it works. i said the other night, the greatest presentation of the gospel is the redeemed community being what it ought. what do you think?
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