“McLaren’s courageous and honest reassessment of our cherished customs and cliches stimulates creative thinking on these vital issues. McLaren’s A New Kind of Christian is a street-level, lived excursion into this present millennium-a world where ministry by control, condescension, and smug certainty gives way to incarnational faith.” (Sally Morgenthaler, president, SJM Management Co. “Get ready to wake up your spirit and breath deep. Stanley Jones Chair in Evangelism, Drew University, and bestselling author of Post-Modern Pilgrims, SoulSalsa, SoulTsunami, and AquaChurch coauthor of A Cup of Coffee at the Soul Cafe) Like all the best things in life, it is not to be entered into lightly, but reverently and in the fear of a God who is waiting for the church to stop asking ‘What would Jesus do?’ and start asking ‘What is Jesus doing?'” (Dr. “This is a book that heightens the depths and deepens the peaks.
“…This book is, quite simply, brilliant…” (Faith for Life, 21/12/04) Brian McLaren’s delightful account offers a wise and wondrous approach for revitalizing Christian spiritual life and Christian congregations. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity–where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a system of belief, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally “right,” and where one’s direction is more important than one’s present location. I set the book up so that it could be the first of a trilogy.Ĭlick here to purchase A New Kind of ChristianĪ New Kind of Christian’s conversation between a pastor and his daughter’s high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life’s most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. But the negative comments have, so far at least, been negligible compared to the affirming ones. The book has made a few people angry, as you can discover by doing a search at Christianity Today (or reading comments at Amazon). So, I began rewriting using a fictional dialogue as framework for the book.
So, I started over, taking the advice of a perceptive reviewer of “The Church on the Other Side.” If McLaren is serious about what he’s saying, the reviewer said, he should be writing fiction. I started this book as a totally nonfiction treatise on Christianity and postmodernity, but after I got about 100 pages into it, I realized the book was on the road to becoming 500 pages of abstraction – and no one would read it.
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