UPDATE: Ben Witherington has done a multi-part in-depth review of Reimagining Church. 1, 2 3 4. Frank Viola’s response part 1 and part 2. OK. I cheated. I maybe kindof promised a review, but after reading the books, I decided I didn’t want to join the debate. I wanted to say something else, namely this:Continue reading “The Frank Viola Project (And Why You Should Take It Seriously)”
Category Archives: Post-Evangelicalism
iMonk 101: A God Shaped Void? Maybe Not
This piece from two summers ago- A God Shaped Void? Maybe Not– explores some important questions about evangelism, our assumptions about those we are evangelizing, and especially our dialogue with atheists and young people. It’s the kind of rethinking of evangelicalism I like to do, and it will challenge you, especially if you were raisedContinue reading “iMonk 101: A God Shaped Void? Maybe Not”
The Post-Evangelical Bookshelf: A Beginner’s Reading List For Finding Your Way In The Evangelical Wilderness
I’ve been doing an interview on “Post-Evangelicalism,” and I thought it would be a good time to list some of the books that define post-evangelicalism for me. First of all, a brief definition: Post-evangelicalism is a way of relating to the present seriously compromised, perhaps terminal, condition of evangelicalism by accessing the resources of theContinue reading “The Post-Evangelical Bookshelf: A Beginner’s Reading List For Finding Your Way In The Evangelical Wilderness”
Post-Evangelical Youth Ministry: Some Incomplete Thoughts
BHT fellow Alex Arnold asks what a post-evangelical youth ministry looks like. Post-evangelicalism is asking what the church itself looks like when it draws its identity, substance and focus from the larger, deeper, wider communion of the church catholic. Nothing is more typical of evangelicalism in both its strengths and its weaknesses than youth ministry.Continue reading “Post-Evangelical Youth Ministry: Some Incomplete Thoughts”
The Little Red Book
Only Scriptural Baptist churches can make a legitimate claim to an unbroken succession back to the time of Christ and the apostles. Christ only built one kind of church and that church is described in detail in the New Testament. The only churches meeting the requirements of that description today are true Baptist churches. BaptistContinue reading “The Little Red Book”
Riffs: 04:21:08: The Emergent Village Statement of Values and Practices
Tony Jones sent me his new book The New Christians, and I’ve been looking at some of the resource material on Emergent Village. I’ve been very encouraged the the Values and Practices Statement from Emergent Village. In my own journey to create a Jesus-shaped spirituality, I was particularly challenged by the first section: Commitment toContinue reading “Riffs: 04:21:08: The Emergent Village Statement of Values and Practices”
No Jesus Needed
Read the original (written back when I was a Calvinist): On Christless Preaching. Recently I was traveling to a conference with a friend, and I listened to a sermon. Preached by a Christian, a Baptist, a minister at a church, a graduate of a Christian school training ministers to serve and communicate Jesus. This preacherContinue reading “No Jesus Needed”
Too Much Heaven?
(Yes, Virginia, there’s a review of N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope coming very soon.) I grew up and was formed in a version of the Christian tradition that practiced a remarkably simple form of Christianity. It was about going to heaven. This life was preparation for heaven. God was preparing a place called heaven withContinue reading “Too Much Heaven?”
Post-Stupid?
“I am on a post-evangelical journey, discovering what it means to be vitally connected to Jesus.” A truly prominent, not-post anything blogger has put forward the following theory: Those who use the prefix “post” to describe themselves are claiming to be smarter than those who don’t. Example: A “post-modernist” is saying “I used to beContinue reading “Post-Stupid?”
Art, Industry and the Evangelical Resistance
Sometime in the past, I read an interview with Michael Card and he was asked a question about contemporary praise and worship music. Somewhere in his answer, there emerged the comparison of the current contemporary music scene to an industry, and the music emerging from it was the product. Art. Creation. Industry. Product. Useful categoriesContinue reading “Art, Industry and the Evangelical Resistance”
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