The Church in Transition: Kent Carlson on bursting wineskins
Near the end of the book Renovation of the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation, Kent Carlson summarizes some of his deepest concern about the challenges of the church in North America. While I'm not sure I agree with his final driving metaphor about "wineskins" bursting all over the place, I do …
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Recovering our way: Thomas Oden on the Antinomian infection in North American Christianity
My continued reflections on pastoral ministry, the church, and what it means to be in ministry in North America led me back to Thomas Oden's Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry. I first read this book while still an undergrad at Wheaton College but enrolled with special permission in a graduate level class entitle "Pastoral Ministry," I …
Faith Speaking Truth to Power [Daniel 4]
As we continued our series on the book of Daniel this past weekend at Eastbrook Church, I turned our attention to chapter 4, where Daniel interprets another of King Nebuchadnezzar's dreams. This is an interesting passage, and has been debated in its historicity. In the Dead Sea Scrolls the "Prayer of Nabonidus" (4Q242) echoes this chapter, …
Five Steps for Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership
In my previous posts on Gary L. McIntosh and Samuel D. Rima's Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership, I summarized their key assumptions in the book, the definition of the dark side, how the dark side develops, and five dark-side issues leaders often encounter. In this final post on the book, I turn to the third, …
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