Countdown Day 34
This quest must instead work more like a wedding proposal, an invitation. It must be about free conversation, not forced conversion. It must demand nothing of anybody, and it must make no threats or strike no bargains, because threats and bargains would invalidate the tender nature of the proposal. Rather, it must open up a “we” into which all are invited, but none are coerced, shamed, pressured, or even obligated. It accepts “No” as a response as valid as “Yes,’ though it may do so with a tear because it is a proposal of love. (27)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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Friends in the Washington DC area …
Two things - first, I'm speaking at Cedar Ridge Community Church in Maryland this Sunday, 11 January, at 9 and 11 a.m. You're welcome to come!
Second ... As you may know, this time last year we were ramping up for our 2008 Everything Must Change tour, which was a joint venture between some friends and me. The real leader of our team was Linnea Nilsen Capshaw, one of the most enthusiastic human beings God has yet created, and a gifted coach and consultant whose work I greatly respect. Linnea is partnering with Tiffany Montavon from Lumunos (recently changed names from Faith@Work), another indispensable and a-pleasure-to-be-around partner on our tour and Kevin Lum from Sojourners, a young, passionate techy-connected pastor and leader working hard for justice. These three leaders are teaming up to offer a half-day seminar on January 24, 2009 – a follow-up to our tour to help you respond to "The Call to Living Justly."
Whether you were part of the tour or not, you'll get a lot out of this half day with these three leaders. If you're in the DC area, I hope you'll save the date, invite along a carload or two of friends, spread the word through your networks, and start off the new year with an infusion of hope and passion for deep shift in your life and in our world.
"There's a movement of hope and change happening, what can I do to make a difference?"
"I want to live ethically, but I just get overwhelmed! What should I do next?"
"We talk about sustainable living – can I keep my toys?"
The Call to Living Justly: Becoming Part of the Change
Date: January 24, 2009 Time: 9 am – 1 pm
Place: Washington DC Cost: $45, includes follow-up coaching call
Learn more and register! (link is http://www.lumunos.org/Get_Connected/upcoming.htm)
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for guitar lovers …
... it doesn't get much better than this. (thanks for the link trev and rachel)
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Countdown Day 35
A search for a new kind of Christian faith can’t be reduced to another list of propositions about which debates rage and over which debaters indulge in hostile polemics. Nor can its proponents be content to forge arguments urging converts to defect from the heretical “them” and affiliate with the righteous “us.” (26-27
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
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Wisdom from an atheist – on Africa, ideology, faith, and transformation
My friend Jim Henderson sent me this link - great article by Matthew Paris, which matches my perceptions as well, both in Africa and elsewhere.
Top quotes:
Those who want Africa to walk tall amid 21st-century global competition must not kid themselves that providing the material means or even the know-how that accompanies what we call development will make the change. A whole belief system must first be supplanted.
And I'm afraid it has to be supplanted by another. Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.
A commenter added,
"Africa needs Christ to save them from the tribe. The west needs Christ to save them from the individual. "
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