Habituados que estamos à forma moderna de pensar, temos tendência a deixar tudo no campo da teoria, e muito passamos à prática. Reunimo-nos inúmeras vezes para falar das mesmas coisas, para ler as mesmas coisas, mas raramente nos levantamos, e tentamos perceber como tudo isso pode ser praticado. As nossas igrejas assemelham-se mais a aulas teóricas do que a visitas de estudo.

Pior, exigimos que as pessoas atinjam uma determinada maturidade antes que possam passar à parte prática. Dizemos por outras palavras que o cristianismo só pode ser vivido depois de aprender muita teoria. Como se a maturidade viesse apenas pelo muito estudar.

Precisamos juntar-nos menos vezes para debater doutrina, e mais vezes para praticá-la. Chegaremos à conclusão que a prática nos ensinará muito mais do que a teoria.

"The church is at its best in two's or three's - not in two or three hundreds or two or three thousands" (Leonard Sweet in the Foreword of Organical Church)

So many times we focus on 2/3 as the minimum... It's worth to think about it as enough.

Just finished reading it. The Last Word And The Word After That is the last book on the A New Kind Of Christian triology. It is very similar to the others. The main theme this time is afterlife: What happens when we die? Not only that, but how the view we have of after life afects the rest of our theology.

Good book, as the others. But the second one is the best.

It makes me sad when I read news like this: Evangelicals split on global warming. It's hard for me to cope with that. But I guess this is a product of the way christians put themselves against science, sometimes. Which in my opinion is completely dumb.

There is no real scientist that says that Global Warming is not a product of our polution. And christians, knowing that earth was created by God, should be the firsts to help protect the earth. Protect life. Nature is, in a sense, weak, easily destroyed. And we are to protect the weak. Not only that, but the people most afected by the global warming are the poors, who we should also protect.

I think we, as christians, should give the example in the protection of the environment, instead of denying the global warming for political and consumeristic reasons, two things that clearly go against the gospel.

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With the same style, this is a continuation of A New Kind of Christian. And a worthy one indeed.

We could say that the main theme of the book is the creation/evolution debate, and although it is a recurrent subject in the book, the main theme is the story of the universe. The story of how God created the universe, and how he intervened in it, and how we fit in that story.

I think this one is better than the first book in the triology. I think its very important to know how to tell the story of life in terms that the people of our days understands them. And the way it shows why you should care about nature, is excelent.

The book might be polemic not only because of emergent theology, but also because it defends that God created earth by evolution. Not that it's polemic to me, but it might be to some :)

I started to read the "A New Kind of Christian" trilogy some weeks ago, and have now finished the first book.

I really liked the book for two main reasons. First, because it speaks about the core issues needing reformation in modern christianity (not the less meaningful exterior things). And second, because the approach used (fictional story) is a very smart way of talking about things that may hurt others.

This is an excellent book to give to that special friend that has problems understanding what that emerging stuff is all about. Because sometimes we focus to much on the superficial things, on the results, and forget to show all the meaningful reasons that led us to live christianity in a new way.

This is also an excellent book for all who find Christ interesting, but the modern church not so interesting. There are other ways of being church, of being christians, that are more appealing to outsiders.

Can't wait to read the other two books...