New Hope and Post Modernism

What do you think about New Hope and Post Modernism? Do you think we are there? Are you there? Do you want to be there?

I really, at first, had a hard time reading this book. Lots of big words and things like that. But after the first chapter or so, I felt like I finally understood who I am and why I am the way I am. Post modern all the time, but I just had no idea what it was. I used to feel like a "baby Christian" because I felt more laid back than most Christians that I knew (outside of New Hope). Reading this book was like someone turned on the lights for me because I was sitting in the dark. Like, I knew what to do I just could not see the way. Do you know what I mean?

The Math Book

I am in Buffalo right now, visiting my sister and I keep thinking about the part of A New Kind of Christian when he talks about the Bible and a Math book. I am going to paraphrase, because I left my journal and book at home. I was a small part of a group last night that met and talked about some chapters of the Bible. It was so great listening to how different verses touched different people in such different ways. So, I have been thinking about the Bible a lot.

Brian talks about the Math book by saying that it is a very important thing. Not because it has all of the answers in the back of it, but because you have to work and struggle through it to learn something from it. Is that how we need to approach reading the Bible? Not to find answers; not to say who is right and who is wrong, but to struggle through it, pick it apart, work through the things we do not understand, sharing our thoughts with others...........

What do you think?

Page 38

On page 38 of A New Kind of Christian, there is a quote that I love. "I want you to invest your lives not in keeping the old ship afloat but in designing and building a new ship for new adventures in a new time in history, as intrepid followers of Jesus Christ."

While reading this book, I needed to look up a lot of words on M-W.com. I was glad that I did on this quote especially. Intrepid means= characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude and endurance. What does this quote mean to you? What does it bring about in you?

A New Kind of Christian

Our first book. A New Kind of Christian by Brian D. McLaren. Use this blog to share your feelings about the book, questions, parts of the book that moved you, just as they hit you, like a journal.