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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007First, we as church leaders have to encourage people to count conversations rather than conversions. If we focus on counting conversions, we’ll tend to pressure people into making a decision before they’re ready. Instead, if we encourage people to say that conversations count, then relationships develop. Then when people do make a decision, they’ve counted [...]
Justice, Power, Kingdom
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Before we begin UYWI later this afternnoon, approximately 30 people who care about justice will gather for a pre-coference conversation about ways to amplify God’s heart for justice in out Americanized “Christian” culture. Here’s a flavor of some of the themes that I suspect will be raised.
Convergence, McLaren’s way
Friday, August 12th, 2005I hope that recent controversies about emergence will give way to a profound new convergence – where formerly alienated people come together as never before to form Christ-centered communities in which more and more of us learn to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength … in which we learn to love [...]
Dedicated to my bride
Thursday, July 14th, 2005(June 21, 1997)”Scripture ends in a marriage. This is the end to which all Things tend, the end which makes all Things new. Marriage unites, but In its fire, true love does not Consume. Selfishness burns. All That mars love ignites, makes ash. But faith, hope, love survive. Love Is the last, best word, the [...]
Finished
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005The Story We Find Ourselves in, today over lunch. It’s the second of three books in Brian McLaren’s ANKOC series. Wow. Refreshing. Stimulating. Provocative. Not sure I agree with all of it, but that’s partly the point. I don’t have to any more than Brian has to agree with me on every detail (as if) [...]
Response to MK re. ANKOC
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005Note to anyone not named Matt Kruse or Bob Campbell: Feel free to eavesdrop on our conversation about Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christian and comment. MK: J, here’s my initial salvo on the book. [Caveats.] Me: You said a mouthful for an initial salvo. Can’t wait for the sequel. MK: What I liked: [...]
McLaren on being "Born Again"
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005I’ve thought long and hard about the best way to blog about ANKOC, beyond the random comments for several weeks now, and I think letting McLaren speak for himself is a good place to start. So I’m going to begin with one of his softball (sarcasm alert) notions that I have to believe riled a [...]
A new kind of Christian
Monday, May 2nd, 2005… keeps his word, unlike my promise to blog about Brian McLaren’s book of the same title when I read it last month. MK reminded me of my transgression so I’ll make an introductory comment beyond the half dozen or so brief references weeks ago. God’s timing remains ever mysterious to me. When it seems [...]
A Jamaican proverb?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005McLaren quotes a fictionalized Jamaican grandmother as saying: If you find you-self on one mountain peak and you wanna get to anodda one, den dey is only one way up, and dat is to go down fust. (ANKOC, p. 80) If it’s not already a proverb, it should be.
From the jacket cover
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005You know the book’s deep when even the endorsements provoke. Here’s one from Dr. Leonard Sweet about A New Kind of Christian (“ANKOC” in future posts): This is a book that heightens the depths and deepens the peaks. … [I]t is not to be entered into lightly, but reverently and in the fear of a [...]
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