Another note from Australia … Q & R from a Gen Y emerging leader
Three excellent questions (slightly edited) from an emerging leader down under:
I hope things are grand ! I'm excited to read your upcoming book...
My name is ???, I'm a young lawyer in Sydney, Australia, and I met you at the World Vision "Where Faith meets the World" workshop. First, thank you so much for your books, blogs, etc. They have been a huge blessing to me, and those around me :)
During morning tea at the workshop, I shared with you that I wanted to study theology.. but that I didn't know whether I should, or, where I should.
I've always felt I wanted to be a minister of some sort at some stage, and feel ill-equiped at present (perhaps that'll never change!). There were 2 main questions I asked you, both which you asked me to raise during question time - alas, I didnt get the opportunity. So, here goes:
Question 1.
Where does a Gen Y-er go to learn how to be a new kind of Christian? - or, be mentored by 'a new kind of' Christian? Is there value in attending an 'evangelical' or other seminary? Are there particular Christian or not Christian think tanks or groups where one could connect to other folk on a similar journey?
Reply and additional questions after the jump ...
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Countdown Day 6
If you haven't checked out my interview with Bill Dahl, it's here.
Here's today's quote:
Everyone with a vine and fig tree. That wouldn’t necessarily mean a literal return to an agricultural economy for everyone, but it would suggest full employment for all families everywhere, all having some secure place in a healthy, sustainable, regenerative economy. (63)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
"Now and then gifted people emerge who see the situation from a higher and more helpful level. Brian McLaren is one of those seers." (Richard Rohr, author of Everything Belongs and The Naked Now)
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Baltimore-Washington Area Friends – please spread the word!
I don't actually speak that often in my home town anymore ... but here's a great opportunity to spend a day and evening together:
St. Mary's Seminary & University/THE ECUMENICAL INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY
A Day and an Evening with Brian McLaren
March 15, 2010
Seminar, 9:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. “Public Worship as Spiritual Formation and Preparation for Mission”
Lecture, 7:30 p.m. “The Gospel, the Postmodern Conversation, and the Church that is Emerging”
FULL DETAILS HERE AND AFTER THE JUMP ...
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Walls …
Here's what the Apostle Paul wrote about dividing walls (Eph. 214):
For [Christ] himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility ... His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.
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Countdown Day 7
One week from today the new book is available! Thanks for your interest ... I hope the book will be of help to you and to the causes, values, hopes, and dreams we share. Here's today's quote:
This approach frees us to let poetry work as poetry is supposed to. Swords into plowshares. Today that would mean dreaming about tanks being melted down into playground jungle gyms and machine guns being recast as swing sets. Wolves living with lambs. Today that would mean Christians and Jews and Muslims throwing a picnic together, or Lefties and Right-wingers forming a band and singing in harmony, or nuclear weapons engineers being redeployed to develop green energy. (63)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
"Brian's writing is brave and honest, vulnerable and courageous, disturbing and unsettling, reassuring and hopeful. Every now and then you come across a book you've been waiting for. A New Kind of Christianity is that book." (Steve Chalke, MBE, founder of Oasis Global, UN Special Advisor on Human Trafficking)
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