I finally read a book by Leonard Sweet. That’s a pretty big deal for me, as this was something like the fifth one I’ve started, failing to finish -or even get three chapters done in- the other four.
Sweet is a futurist, professor of evangelism, church renewal advocate and sometimes part of the emerging conversation. His background is with the mainlines, but he’s an all purpose evangelical who is easy to read and a rich mine of sermon and teaching material.
The Gospel According to Starbucks is exactly what it says. Sweet takes what he sees as the astonishing success of Starbucks, and uses it as a launch point for looking at important aspects of the Gospel that the church needs to embrace and practice. If you don’t care for that sort of thing, this book won’t excite you. I’m normally in that camp, but this book actually surprised me by holding my interest and saying a lot of Biblically solid things in a fresh and memorable way. It was a “fun” read with plenty of benefits.Continue reading “Review: The Gospel According to Starbucks by Leonard Sweet”
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Nothing has been more common in the various debates regarding the future of evangelicalism than the prevalence of generational characteristics put forward as absolute law. In fact, the word “generation,” a good Bible word that emphasized both continuity and discontinuity, has come to mean a kind of discontinuity that renders the average church helpless to do anything that doesn’t take into account the knowledge of experts in generational characteristics.
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When I first received 
I received some good questions from a reader on the subject of giving to panhandlers. Here are a few thoughts and responses. I may have more to say in the comments.
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