Andrew Jones had an interview with Brian McLaren on his book "Everything Must Change". Heres a quote from it I thought was interesting, share your thoughts in the comments:
I was deeply impacted a few years ago by Alan Roxburgh at one of our events…when he said, the church is like a person who gets invited to a party and only talks about himself. I’ve been thinking that we get into a syndrome of trying to save our lives denominationally, etc, which makes us lose them … when instead, our churches need to lose our lives, pour ourselves out for the sake of the world, become more interested in joining God in caring for the world than in getting God to join us in caring for ourselves, that sort of thing. But of course, at heart I’ll always be a pastor, and in the end, none of this matters unless it’s embedded in local churches of whatever form. My next book will lean back in that direction - it’s on spiritual formation and disciplines, etc. - TSK - Brian McLaren Responds to Everything Must Change Concerns
The post is well worth a read, even if you, like me, havent read McLaren’s book. Theres a couple of partiularly interesting points on African Pentacostalism and others on liberation theology.
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1 Willy // Mar 26, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Interesting … I actually find myself agreeing with a lot of what McLaren says, though he does have a tendency to go too far. I agree that the “work of the church” is to do kingdom work in our every day lives, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that as the church we try to save our lives denominationally. I think the problem is that denominational pride as opposed to denominational idolatry.
BTW, I was interested to read this quote in one of your earlier posts on emergent … “assuming emergent isn’t an elitist term or group then I’m in guys!”
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