Saturday, March 3, 2012

Gospel about 'good news to the poor'

Elkhart, Ind.

AMBS

Elkhart

The evangelization of the world, including the West, "is inseparable from the rediscovery of the gospel as 'good news to the poor.'"This core message in the Theological Lectureship at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary came from C. Ren� Padilla, who sees the U.S. and its economic and political policies from a perspective in the Two-thirds World.

Padilla lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and works with organizations that help Christians meet the physical, social and spiritual needs of poor communities. He is the son of a tailor-evangelist and, after coming to faith in Christ at the age of 15, became an evangelist in jail …

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