AKMA on universals and evangelism

AKMA makes some interesting and thoughtful points about how we understand universal truth — “when someone claims to know a universal truth so as to be able to use the universality of the alleged truth for discursive leverage, I doubt that they’re on the right path” — and about evangelism — “to manifest the truthfulness of that which I claim in such a way as to evoke the question, “Why isn’t my life more like that?” If we can’t elicit that question from neighbors, then it would be coercive to try to oblige them to adopt a way of life whose attractions they can’t detect.” I’m going to return to his post and think some more about his distinctions between an Anglo-Catholic evangelism and a Protestant one (noting that to make such sweeping generalizations might itself be problematic). I’m wondering if perhaps that distinction might be what I need to help elicit in my current context a better understanding of “missional leadership”? Something to ponder, at any rate.