As the Emerging Church grows I become increasingly frustrated and have given several reasons why in other posts. I was recently challenged on my criticism of the Emerging Church. Some have said that it is impossible to make blanket statements about the Emerging Church because they are so diverse. This is true, which is why I criticize their postmodernism.I further responded saying that there were some (though few) Emergent leaders that I like and have great respect for. One of those men is Mark Driscoll. And so I decided to pick up his and Gary Breshear's book, "Vintage Jesus: Timeless Answers to Timeless Questions." It had the approval of guys like Charles Colson, Wayne Grudem, Bruce Ware, and others. This blew me away. Brian McLaren is nowhere in this book giving it his approval. Jim Wallace, Tony Campolo, and others didn't write the forward and none of the usual suspects were given blurbs on it.
I knew then, that this must be a good book. And I was not disappointed.
The book is simply a modern theological lesson on Christology. Driscoll deals with the cross, the virgin birth, the ascension, the resurrection, Jesus' humanity, His divinity, etc. This is just a detailed introduction into the studies of Christ. After each chapter where Driscoll deals with the issue at hand, he provides a list of common questions with accurate, excellent answers.
This book is orthodox and a sign of relief. Finally, it seems, someone that people consider Emergent, is getting it right. I am now officially a huge fan of Mark Driscoll, and the more I learn about him, the more I like him.
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Speaking of the emergence of the church.
This reference describes how the church really emerged--at the point of a sword and the end of the barrel of a gun, including MAXIM GUNS at the hey(hay)-day of European colonialism---mowing down the heathen savages like hay!
www.jesusneverexisted.com
And is of course still being done so via Shock & Awe as was the recent case in Iraq.
Yes people have committed murder over the issue of religion, but 2,000 years of Christianity and it's many deaths cannot even come close to the number of people masacred in just a few decades in the 20th Century alone by the hands of atheistic dictators. The real murderers are not just people of faith, but people who are anti-faith like anonymous here.
As for the Iraq comment, one cannot be so stupid to actually believe that the invasion in Iraq had anything to do with forcing Muslims to become Christians.
Finally, for the Jesus never existed site, there is more evidence for the existence of Jesus than for persons like Homer, Socrates, etc.
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