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We’ve cashed in our ecclesial birthright of encounter with the God who is God for a bowl of the hot porridge of relevance.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
The Anglican Way: A Guidebook
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we must resist the rampant notion that church is an optional add-on to one’s solitary faith journey.
Brett McCracken • Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community
Warren’s building, and his own style, represented an openness, even a partnership, in helping individuals find their own purpose by allowing Jesus to help each person flourish and overcome the malaise that the age of authenticity seemed to leave in the wake of its individualized freedom. Yet Warren did not do this by speaking against individualized
... See moreAndrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
together. Jesus risked his reputation and the credibility of his story by tying them to how his followers live and care for one another in community (John 17:20-23).
Christine D. Pohl • Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
What’s “believable” has changed, and what we have always believed has been challenged. In response to this, some are eager to offer “updated” versions of Christian faith, revisionist versions of the gospel that are more acceptable, less scandalous—more relevant and less offensive.
James K. A. Smith • Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
Father Matthew Mackie