The Irresistible Revolution By Shane Claiborne Chapter 4: When Comfort Becomes Uncomfortable The introduction to this chapter is about Shane moving to Chicago to go to Willow Creek Community Church and also finish up at Wheaton College. I will go ahead and move on from that and talk about what the chapter actually means. Let’s [...]

The Irresistible Revolution By Shane Claiborne Chapter 3: In Search of a Christian What would happen if you had a friend, who you knew was a Christian or maybe ya’ll went to Bible college together, come up to you and say “I am not a Christian anymore.” Then he says, “I gave up Christianity in [...]

The Irresistible Revolution By Shane Claiborne Chapter 2: Resurrecting Church The chapter starts out by telling us how the Catholics were evicting forty homeless families in Philly from an old cathedral that is not even being used anymore. That area of Philly was known as “The Badlands” and the living conditions were so bad, that [...]

The Irresistible Revolution By Shane Claiborne Chapter 1: When Christianity Was Still Safe Have you noticed what we, as a society (or Christians), have done to saints and prophets who are dangerous? We have bronzed them, drained them of their passion and trapped them in a stained glass window or an icon. For example, people [...]

The Irresistible Revolution By Shane Claiborne The Irresistible Blog Series This blog series is intended to share my thoughts and a summary of the book “The Irresistible Revolution” written by Shane Claiborne. First, I would like to say this book has been an extreme wake-up call to me, personally. I have already been considering a [...]

Mark Driscoll points out that everything they do at Mars Hill Church may not work in the culture where you are. It’s not suppose to be that way. We are suppose to adapt and do the things our way that brings in our culture.  Here are a few little pointers about our kingdom culture (the [...]

1. What is your name? Jenny Schneider 2. Do you consider yourself to be a Christian? Yes. I committed my life to Christ at the age of thirteen. 3. What is your vocation? I work in Broadcast Standards for a major television network. My department monitors and edits prime-time and children’s programming, network commercials, and [...]

What can we say about postmodernism? First, postmodernism is basically a philosophical junk drawer in which people toss anything and everything they cannot make sense of. If you ask four philosophers what post-modernity is, you will get five answers. Second, postmodern is not actually that new, as demonstrated by the fact that philosopher Huston Smith [...]

What is your name? Mike Hale Do you consider yourself a Christian? Yes What is your age? 59 What is your vocation? I am the founder and president of Hales Ales Brewery Name some famous brewers and pubs in the history of the church. I have no knowledge of famous brewers or pubs in the [...]

The journey of the gospel from the time of Jesus to the present day has encountered a number of well-worn and dangerous ruts that are seemingly impossible to avoid. Because of their deadly nature, it is critical that we be aware of them and attempt to avoid traveling in them as much as possible. We [...]