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Title: ‘The Next Evangelicalism’ Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity, by Soong-Chan Rah
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Reconciliation Blog
URL Source: http://edwardg.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/the-next-evangelicalism/
Published: Mar 4, 2009
Author: Edward Gilbreath
Post Date: 2009-05-20 00:24:44 by Deasy
Keywords: radio, right, conservative, christian
Views: 673
Comments: 9
For those of you who don’t know him, Soong-Chan is a brilliant theologian and pastor who for years led Cambridge Community Fellowship Church, a multiethnic, urban, post-modern congregation in the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now a professor at North Park Theological Seminary here in Chicago, Soong-Chan has rattled a lot of cages over the years by calling attention to issues of racism and cultural insensitivity in the evangelical church and community. I included a story about the Rickshaw Rally fiasco in my book, Reconciliation Blues, and I blogged about Soong-Chan’s role in the Zondevan/Youth Specialities controversy a couple years ago. In addition, when I was the editor of Today’s Christian, I published an insightful interview with Soong-Chan about the Youth Specialities episode and his ministry of activism. Though he may have gained a reputation as a rabble-rouser in some quarters, I know him as a kind-hearted, passionate man of God who loves the church and lost people. We’re planning to do an interview with Soong-Chan about his book for that other little blog that I’m involved with, UrbanFaith.com. If you have any questions you’d like to hear Soong-Chan address about the book or his ministry in general, please leave them in the comments area below, or send them to me directly through my website. We’ll publish the interview in the next couple weeks, so send your questions soon. Thanks!
Poster Comment: The indoctrination is now going out over the "conservative" Christian airwaves, which is how I heard about this.
If you haven’t seen it yet, I strongly encourage you to check out my friend Soong-Chan Rah’s provocative new book, The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity. Today, African, Asian, and Latin American Christians make up 60 percent of the world’s Christian population. The United States and Europe will soon no longer be the center of evangelical activity in the world. With this in mind, the book calls the North American church to break free of its cultural captivity to a Western/Eurocentric/White American mindset and to embrace a new evangelicalism that is diverse and multiethnic. You can find out more here at the IVP site.
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That part is pure bs. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. bible.cc/micah/4-2.htm "Jerusalem" = America. The enduring legacy of the First Landing .... http://www.worldnetdaily.com/new...icle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55421 The unfulfilled promises made to Abraham belong to the church [Galatians 3:16...29]. Here's one: Isaiah 55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. bible.cc/isaiah/55-5.htm What nation does everyone try to run to? "Israel"? Hardly. Their god is Lucifer. Here's another one: Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. bible.cc/psalms/33-12.htm / What's the most blessed nation on earth? "Israel"? or America? Whom did He chose? "Israel"? Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. bible.cc/matthew/21-43.htm Isa 65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: http://www.blueletterbible.org/B...?b=Isa&c=65&v=15&t=KJV#15 [and then God goes on to speak of the New Israel, the church.] Jhn 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. http://www.blueletterbible.org/s...cfm?b=Psa&c=33&v=12&t=KJV As far as the race thing goes, the church IS multi-racial: Galatians 3:29, Revelaton 5:9-10. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
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