I have been reading a Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren and have found it quite interesting. It starts off with a provocative introduction…
“You may not be a Christian and wondering why anyone would want to be. The religion that inspired the Crusades, launched witch trials, perpetuates religious broadcasting, presents too-often boring and irrelevant church services with schmaltzy music-or else presents manic and overly aggressive church services with a different kind of schmaltzy music-baptizes wars and other questionable political programs, promotes judgmentalism, and ordains preachers with puffy haircuts…it doesn’t make sense to you why anyone would want “in” on that.
You may not yet be a Christian and you’re thinking of becoming one, but you’re worried that if you do you’ll become a worse person-judgmental, arrogant, narrow-minded, bigoted, and brainwashed. You feel attracted to something good on the path of Jesus, but you wish you could get that “something good” without a lot of extra religious social and maybe political baggage…you wonder if there’s any way to follow Jesus without becoming a Christian.”
Christian or not Christian…his words here should create some internal debate and that’s always good.
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