This morning, I listened to Genesis 12-20, and I was struck with the chaotic nature of the Abraham cycle. There are so many things that happen in the story that make no sense to the modern sensibilities. There are angels of YHWH who tell Abraham’s concubine to return to an abusive situation with Abraham’s wife.… Read More »
Read previous posts in this series: Introduction The Narrative Question The Authority Question The God Question The Jesus Question The Gospel Question The Church Question For some reason, every time I write about the issue of sexuality, I get myself into trouble. I’m not sure how I do it, but I do. McLaren seems to… Read More »
Some of you may remember my review of Primal by Mark Batterson a few months ago. I was not particularly impressed. It felt contrived and ambiguous while attempting to be motivational and revolutionary. I expected Radical by David Platt to be in the same vein – attempting to be revolutionary. I was genuinely surprised by how… Read More »
What is the gospel? This is a question that McLaren has been asking for as long as I have been reading his works. I will agree with McLaren that the gospel is not the bullet-pointed, systematic plan to get out of Hell that most evangelicals reduce it to. To McLaren, we need to figure out… Read More »
You have to love it when someone starts speaking about others using abstract titles when everyone knows who they are talking about. In this section of A New Kind of Christianity, Brian McLaren answers some accusations from two other well-known Christian writers – specifically Mark Driscoll and John MacArthur. To Driscoll, Jesus was a man’s… Read More »
Mclaren’s third chapter marked the first time I had a genuine disagreement with his questions. Mclaren’s attempts to argue that human beings were not able to handle God falls short (he actually uses an analogy where he refers to the ancients as 2nd graders). What if people who live in the second-grade world of polytheism… Read More »
Part 2 of Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity addresses how we should read the Bible. It presented a fairly decent contrast of what I refer to as the clerical and journey views of the Scriptures. Clerical View – the Scriptures need a professional caste of clerks who decipher the texts because the ‘laity’ couldn’t… Read More »
What is the over-arching story of the Scriptures? In Western Christianity, it has long been contended that the story of the Scriptures is the story of redemption through Jesus. Brian McLaren taught this position for a long time. He generalizes the idea in a sort of diagram that I will not reproduce here, but essentially… Read More »
At Grace we have a simple vision: Creating environments where people encounter Jesus and journey together. We’ve defined encountering Jesus pretty well. He is Savior, Master and Model. But I’ve struggled with the idea of the journey. What does it look like? Finally, I might stumbled on the biblical answer. The journey is embodied in… Read More »
I am quite certain that the next few posts will offend many an uber-Christian out there in cyberspace. If you are one such offended individual, I wish to extend an apology in advance. If you wish to comment and provide useful dialogue on the topic of this post, feel free; but if you wish to… Read More »
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