post religious christian » books http://www.postreligiouschristian.com following jesus in a post religious world Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:13:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Alan Roxburgh -: The Missional Journey -Is not what we might think http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2008/12/24/alan-roxburgh-the-missional-journey-is-not-what-we-might-think/ http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2008/12/24/alan-roxburgh-the-missional-journey-is-not-what-we-might-think/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:03:22 +0000 Andre Daley http://www.emergingmosaic.com/?p=1309 Continue reading →]]> Here is a link to Alan Roxburgh founder of Allelon vlogging on Rodney Starks book What Americans Really Believe.

The insights Roxburgh shares from the book reinforces the though I have ad for some time that we don’t need to go do 2.0 churches right now in America. Churches that bear not resemblance to the historic church. What we need are 1.5 church churches that link back to the future. An ancient future church (that Webber wrote about) that  that re-imagines the church of today based on the church of yesterday including but not limited to the new testament church.

I am intrigued by Roxburgh’s comment about all the new Church gurus. I think these are the people who want to draw a line in the sand and do a new church that has no connection with what has come before.  I think he is right is saying that these folks look at the world only through their (all too often elite) lens,  usually white male academic. They ignore all the contributions of people outside they world view and experience have made to the church. They propose this new church based on their own cultural biases to the exclusion of all else. This is why I am post emergent. Stark research seems to bear this out.

Roxburgh ends by saying if we want to have a missional transformational church we will need to go to the center of where the culture is. I think we need to take a preliminary stil. Across the board we the church need to stop acting as if we are at the center of our culture and the universe. We are not. God is, it is God’s mission not ours. So as Roxburgh suggests we need to where God is and that is where the work of the Church is to be found.

Alan Roxburgh – Vlog #2 : The Missional Journey.

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]]> http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2008/12/24/alan-roxburgh-the-missional-journey-is-not-what-we-might-think/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ the original emerging church http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2006/11/09/the-original-emerging-church/ http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2006/11/09/the-original-emerging-church/#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:43:22 +0000 Andre Daley http://www.emergingmosaic.com/2006/11/09/the-original-emerging-church/ Continue reading →]]> The Dust Off Their Feet: Lessons from the First Church (Voice)I am preparing for a couple of worship messages based on Act 2:42-44 and while browsing the religion section of a local bookstore I came across a great book find. A couple of dusty feet caught my eye.  They were on the cover of a book called dust off their feet- lessons from the early church by Brian McLaren and Chris Seay. The title doesn’t fully describe this gem. I describe it as a postmodern reading and commentary of the book of acts. The back cover asks the question, “Did you know the first church in acts was the original emerging church?”

I’ve already  got some good insight from this retelling and commentary on Acts and I recommend to all of those seeking to reclaim the passion and purpose  early church and rebirth it into our emerging contexts.

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]]> http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2006/11/09/the-original-emerging-church/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Brian McLaren and the secret message of jesus http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2006/04/12/brian-mclaren-and-trhe-secret-message-of-jesus/ http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2006/04/12/brian-mclaren-and-trhe-secret-message-of-jesus/#comments Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:26:16 +0000 Andre Daley http://www.andredaley.com/2006/04/12/brian-mclaren-and-trhe-secret-message-of-jesus/ Continue reading →]]> Thanks to Elizabeth Potter for a heads up on this

MCLAREN ON CBS EVENING NEWS. Emergent-church leader and The Secret Message of Jesus (W Publishing/Nelson) author Brian McLaren will be
featured in a series on faith this week on CBS Evening News. The Emergent story is on Thursday night.

And there’ll be an article in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, as well.

Brian has a new home on the web http://www.brianmclaren.net/

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]]> http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2006/04/12/brian-mclaren-and-trhe-secret-message-of-jesus/feed/ 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ Anne Rice writes about Jesus, ‘Christ the Lord,’ from vampires to Jesus — Beliefnet.com http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2006/03/27/anne-rice-writes-about-jesus-christ-the-lord-from-vampires-to-jesus-beliefnetcom/ http://www.postreligiouschristian.com/2006/03/27/anne-rice-writes-about-jesus-christ-the-lord-from-vampires-to-jesus-beliefnetcom/#comments Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:59:46 +0000 Andre Daley http://www.andredaley.com/2006/03/27/anne-rice-writes-about-jesus-christ-the-lord-from-vampires-to-jesus-beliefnetcom/ Continue reading →]]> America’s favorite author of vampire tales is now writing about blood of a different sort. Check out this article.

Anne Rice from vampires to Jesus — Beliefnet.com

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