As it is customary to make New Year’s Resolutions in January --- and fail at keeping them by February --- I decided to get serious about this exercise for 2008. Since I mentally divide my life into roles for organizational purposes, I am making my resolutions per each role. This is my plan for Church/Christian during the next twelve months:
RESOLUTION
To study more about the Emergent/Emerging Church
PLAN
Read some, if not all, of the books on a reading list that features authors and opinions that are both pro-Emergent and anti-Emergent.
READING LIST
Contemplative Youth Ministry (Pro-Emergent)
by Mark Yaconelli
Becoming Conversant with the Emergent Church (Anti-Emergent)
by Don (D.A.) Carson
Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives (Pro-Emergent)
by Mark Driscoll
A Time of Departing (Anti-Emergent)
by Ray Yungen
They Like Jesus, But Not the Church: Insights from Emerging Generations (Pro-Emergent)
By Dan Kimball
Faith Undone (Anti-Emergent)
by Roger Oakland
Velvet Elvis (Pro-Emergent)
by Rob Bell
For Many Shall Come in My Name (Anti-Emergent)
by Ray Yungen
The Sacred Way (Pro-Emergent)
by Tony Jones
The Truth War (Anti-Emergent)
By John MacArthur
A Generous Orthodoxy (Pro-Emergent)
by Brian McLaren
Another Jesus (Anti-Emergent)
by Roger Oakland
The Barbarian Way (Pro-Emergent)
by Erwin McManus
The Other Side of the River (Biography)
By Kevin Reeves
Stumbling Toward Faith (Biography)
By Renee N. Altson
2 comments:
Roger Oakland would be the least worthwhile to read critic on that list. Reportedly, he tilts at windmills. Your mileage may vary.
God is good
jpu
Cool. I hope you keep us posted about what you discover. Velvet Elvis is definately on my reading list. Several of my friends keep quoting from it. May as well visit Amazon and order it now...
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