Doing some reading for an upcoming message led me to pick up Leslie Newbigin’s, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. It is always encouraging when you read a missiologist who epxresses what you sense and feel you are guilty of and so also a number of well-intentioned evangelical … Continue reading
Read MoreMy friend Spencer Burke expresses the need for a metaphorical shift in leadership when he calls us to be Fellow Travelers rather than Tour Guides. Sometimes want to find the place between the polarities of the Calvinist-Arminian controversy he is not sure of a fit anywhere. Yet, here is … Continue reading
Read MoreThe use of categories often runs the risk of depersonalizing the very people pitched in thee various categories used. Leonard Sweet offers how one church has handled the traditional penchant to use labels to describe those outside the Church, people of God, community of faith.
“Warehouse 242 is a … Continue reading
Read MoreFinished. On to the follow-up, “The Scandal Ten Years Later.” I recall Dale Soden’s, “Intellectual History of the United States” course I took in college. I also remember taking “Western Civ.” These courses should be required in order to connect intellectual history with social history. McLaren has a point … Continue reading
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Competing narratives … Dino does us a favor …
Life is contextual. We often speak as though we possess a great deal of objectivity. Occasionally we state the obvious influences in an attempt to work ourselves out of the subjective and into the objective. From our perceived position of objectivity we can make grand assertions as though we … Continue reading
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