Sublime

If you are a creature of habit whose loves have been deformed by disordered secular liturgies, then the best gift God could give you is Spirit-infused practices that will reform and retrain your loves.

Self-authenticating mystical experiences have always been threatening to existing hierarchical structure; it’s the same old tension between Dionysus and Apollo that never goes away.

I also believe that for the sake of discipleship it is crucial to immerse oneself in a community of practice that exhibits the reformative potential we’ve been describing. Your heart is at stake.

without giving our honored predecessors the final say or making them an “alternative source,” independent of scripture itself. When they speak with one voice, we should listen very carefully. They may be wrong. They sometimes are. But we ignore them at our peril. The study of church history is not, ultimately, a different “subject” from the careful

Over the next three years this group (which included coauthor Mark Snowden) developed an oral approach to discipling using Bible stories and recorded more than four hundred audio Bible stories. We called our set of stories Following Jesus: Making Disciples of Oral Learners2 and showed people how to adapt it for any culture.

‘David stares into the fire wondering whether to vote Labour or Conservative’, as the audience have no way of inferring that.