Scot McKnight points us to this quiz about the kingdom of God.
My results:

You scored as Kingdom as a Christianised Society. Christians shouldn’t withdraw from the world, but by being present in it they can transform it. The kingdom is not only spiritual, but social, political, and cultural.

Kingdom as a Christianised Society

92%

The Kingdom […]

Wineskins has my review of McLaren’s latest book here.
Brian McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus

Invisible Children Screening
Garnett Church of Christ
Wed, April 19, 7 pm
Invisible Children

Gary Holloway has written a great article about Barton Stone’s different models of unity.
Stone wrote about three models that have historically failed to create and maintain unity among believers.
Book union-unity based on creedal agreement.
Head union-unity based on common understanding of the Bible.
Water union-unity based on immersion into water.
He suggests a fourth model that he calls […]

Check out my article, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, over at Wineskins Magazine.

table fellowship, inclusion

Yesterday at the Tulsa Emergent Cohort we talked about evangelism. I tried to stoke the conversation by bringing some quotes from one of the best books on evangelism I’ve read: The Logic of Evangelism by William J. Abraham.

What is especially striking is the way in which the gospel of the kingdom […]

The second section of McLaren’sThe Secret Message of Jesus is called “Engagement: Grappling with the Meaning of Jesus’s Message.”
In chapter six, McLaren gives a brief introduction to the parables, which he calls the medium of Jesus’s message. He writes, “Human kingdoms advance by force and violence with falling bombs and flying bullets, but God’s […]

In part one of The Secret Message of Jesus McLaren attempts to excavate Jesus’s Kingdom message that he claims has long been buried.
In chapter one, he makes a case for why recovering the essence of Jesus’s message is essential for those who do and don’t follow Jesus. He writes, “In one of my […]

Tonight our leadership team will continue our study of the gospel and the kingdom of God. Here is the handout I’ll use to start the discussion. It’s extremely oversimplified, but gives us something to work with.
Gospel–an announcement of good news concerning a victory that has been won by God on behalf of his […]