One recent Sunday morning I met a man visiting our church. His wife Jane had stayed home while he and his boys attended worship. When I asked him about Jane, he said, “She wasn’t raised in any faith. That’s why she’s not here.” Two hours later I rejoiced with Orion’s mother as Orion was baptized into Christ. [...]
Review of “A New Kind of Christianity” (Part 1)
by Chris on 19. Apr, 2010 in Blog
This entry is part 2 of 19 in the series Book Reviews
In his book “A New Kind of Christianity,” Brian McLaren writes “The Christian faith in all its forms is in trouble.” The source of the trouble? It is due in part to the reality that “nearly all of our Protestant denominations had been formed…in the modern era…with its absolute scientific laws, consumerist individualism, and rational [...]
Review of “A New Kind of Christianity” (Part 2)
by Chris on 20. Apr, 2010 in Blog
This entry is part 3 of 19 in the series Book Reviews
In “A New Kind of Christianity” Brian McLaren urges Christians/Churches to wrestle with 10 questions in order to “dis embed” themselves from their Modern assumptions and incarnate the gospel afresh in a Postmodern world. Question #1 – The Narrative Question: What is the Overarching Story Line of the Bible.
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