Thursday, October 9, 2008

Consume This:

There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers.

It's a book about faith and fear,

wealth and war,

poverty, power, safety, terror,

Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity,

It's about empty empires and the truth that everybody's a priest, it's about oppression, occupation, and what happens when Christians support, animate and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from.

It's about what it means to be a part of the church of Jesus in a world where some people fly planes into buildings while others pick up groceries in Hummers.
Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell and Don Golden.

1 comment:

jejeel said...

Have you seen this site, http://wikibruce.com/2008/10/virtual-virtues-vividly-voices-vexingly-viral-values/? Looks like Rob is up to something, not sure where it'll end.