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Andy Rowell’s Book Suggestions on Church
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Scot McKnight
Andy Rowell is a third year Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) student at Duke Divinity School. His primary concentration is Church, Ministry, and Evangelism and his secondary concentration is New Testament. He blogs at Church Leadership Conversations. What are your suggestions for books about church? 13 Ecclesiology Conversations: Making sense of the Guilds, Conversations, Silos and…
On Picking a Church
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Scot McKnight
Let’s say you move into a new community, one in which you know no one other than a person or two with whom you will be working your day job, and you are left to your own devices to pick a church. What criteria would you use? In reading Todd Hunter, Giving Church Another Chance:…
Your Church is too Small
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Scot McKnight
What did Jesus mean, in John 17, when he prayed that we might be “one”? Did he mean some kind of ecclesiastical organization? What does the Church mean when, in the billions of times of reciting The Apostles’ Creed, it says “I believe in the holy, catholic church”? What do we mean when we recite…
Eugene Peterson: Practice Resurrection 4
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Scot McKnight
Eugene Peterson relentlessly chases an important idea in the opening part of his new book, Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ . That idea is the need to strip ourselves of the romantic, it’s-going-to-be-utopia versions of the church, and he makes it clear that you won’t find that perfection in those early churches either.…
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