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Jazz Theologian<\/span>:<\/b><\/i> You argue <\/p>\n McLaren<\/b>: <\/span>Actually, <\/p>\n Join the Groove: How does your view of the “overarching story line of the Bible” effect the way you live out the faith?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jazz Theologian: You argue that, A New Kind of Christianity will require that we ask, “What is the overarching story line of the Bible? How will this answer to this question help African-American churches that often read the Bible through an Exodus or Exile narrative?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nthat, A New Kind of Christianity<\/span>
\nwill require that we ask, “What is the overarching story line of the
\nBible? How will this answer to this question help African-American
\nchurches that often read the Bible through an Exodus or Exile narrative?<\/i><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
\nin this book I’m saying that those African-American churches that read the
\nBible through an Exodus narrative have been right all along, and that the white
\nchurches that tended to read the Bible exclusively through an atonement and
\nevacuation narrative are missing something tremendously important. Sadly, in my
\nexperience, quite a few of our African-American churches are switching over to
\nthe more traditional white narrative, which says that it’s only about Jesus and
\nme (and maybe my family, or my religion), with little concern for the more
\nsocial dimensions of the gospel for the poor, oppressed, excluded, marginalized
\nand forgotten, not to mention our enemies. I’m recommending that we take that
\nExodus narrative that African American theology has cherished, and then set the
\nnarrative of creation as its prequel, and the narrative of reconciliation as
\nits sequel … and in that way, I think we’ll have a three-dimensional
\nnarrative that has room for us to live, serve, and breathe.<\/p>\n