Study Guide for EMC
My friend Alan Ward created a super-helpful study guide for Everything Must Change, which you can download for your group or for individual study here.
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Countdown Day 2
Friends - just two days until the book releases! Thanks for your interest in following these daily quotations.
But my quest for a new kind of Christianity has required me to ask some hard questions about the Bible I love. There will be no new kind of Christian faith without a new approach to the Bible. (68)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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Responses to my Palestine posts so far …
If you have an interest in experiencing what some friends and I experienced in Israel and Palestine in January, I highly recommend you contact my friends Jeff and Janet Wright. Jeff is a Disciples of Christ pastor who has a deep passion for peace in the Middle East, and he knows how to introduce others to what's going on there. You can contact him at wright@frii.com. Maybe you could put together a group of about twenty friends yourself, or maybe you could join another group. I highly, highly recommend this. It's one thing to go to the "Holy Land" and see where Jesus worked and walked in the past. It's another thing to combine that with seeing where the Spirit of Jesus is working and walking in the present, teaching people to seek peace and reconciliation with God, neighbor, and enemy.
I've received a number of positive responses to my recent posts on Palestine, like this one.
A lot of people are noticing what you're writing and your witness. Right now, it's mostly people saying "hey, McLaren seems to be getting it." (That was a comment on your sojourners' piece.) But be ready to be attacked and insulted and slimed like never before... I suspect you've developed a thick skin by now. Just want you to know you're going to need it. And I'll be praying for you.
Of course, some other responses haven't been so positive. I'll include some of them, with my responses, after the jump.
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Countdown Day 3
OK, folks, it's almost time! You can pre-order the book online now, or plan to visit a local bookseller on Tuesday ...
I love the Bible. This love goes back to childhood for me, to warm memories when my parents would read me Bible stories, either directly from a big, black, leather-bound, red-letter King James Version or from a children’s illustrated story Bible…. In my teenage years, I began to read the bible for myself and found treasure buried on every page…. I began journaling my responses to what I was reading, and followed several different schemes for reading through the Bible every year or so. I even memorized long passages, a practice I still cherish…. I’ve never tired of the Bible through all these years. The more I’ve asked of it, the more it has yielded to me. So yes, I love the Bible. I’m in awe of it. At this very moment. (67)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
Here's a little inspiration!
Love Can Change the World - live at Willow Creek from aaron niequist on Vimeo.
On 01.10.10, we sang this song for the first time at Willow. It launched us into reading the Prayer of St Francis, space for reflection, Have Thine Own Way Lord, and a response. Most of the experience is included in this video.
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Bob Setzer gets it right on dialogue …
Here. Quotable:
Long before we can “love” our enemies, we have to learn to talk with them.
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