Comments on: Blazing an Unfashionable Trail for Today's Evangelicals

By: Kingdom People - April 2009 « Kingdom People

Kingdom People - April 2009 « Kingdom People — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:18:24 +0000

[...] REVIEWS Unfashionable – Tullian Tchividjian Lost and Found – Ed Stetzer Introducing Paul – Michael Bird Lost in Transmission? What We Can Know [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:09:59 +0000

Thanks, Trevin, for this reivew.
Will take a look!

By: RJ

RJ — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:30:45 +0000

Let me be the contrarian again. I am afraid that many will use the above words to justify resisting any kind of change. After all, that it is human nature to resist change. They want to stick to the “old” ways; that is the “way we have always done it”. But, Jesus Christ changed everything when he came. The Pharisees were very comfortable being called righteous; they believed if they touched someone who was not a Jew they became unclean! Jesus went about showing them that they were totally out of touch with his form of outreach. I believe that many Evangelicals today have reverted back to being totally out of touch with Jesus’ forms of outreach.
Just being different does not insure Christ like behavior. Charles Manson was definitely different but that in no way was a good thing! The typical Christians way of living has been shown again and again be be very much like the secular masses we so often rail against. So, if being different means that we go back to the early Christians examples of living in the world then by all means let’s be different.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:01:51 +0000

Trevin,
Thanks for the good review. This sounds like a timely book indeed. It seems to me that for the last 20 years or so Christians have made one of two mistakes. First, as the book addresses, we have decided that the best way to “reach” the world is to become like it and pander to it. The other extreme has been to embrace the wrong kind of “different”…wierdness and all manner of strangeness just to be different. Both extremes are equally repulsive. “Our culture’s hunger for trascendence” is a good description of what we need to reflect. Realness and normalcy while showing forth a genuine presence of God’s Spirit.