This was an aside and not the main point of the post that was written, but it highlights the desperate need to move away from what Colin Symes calls "decisionism"…
I became a follower of Jesus. I was always a Christian, by which I mean that I always trusted in Christ to avoid hell. But, in [...]
It is all too common for Christians to attempt to do justice to the scriptural narrative by listening to it, learning from it, and attempting to extract a way of viewing the world from it. But the narrative itself is asking us to approach it in a much more radical way. It is inviting us [...]
“One of my mentors once told me that the measure of a religion in a pluralistic society is the breadth and depth of benefits it brings to its non-adherents.”
Brian McLaren in recent Blog Post
