Book review from a new book by Dr. John W. Wright, called Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation. Excerpt:
Drawing on Robert Bellah, Wright offers a diagnosis of recent trends which has left pastors in a situation such that the managerial demands of a pastor are contrasted with the therapeutic needs of those sitting in the pews whereby the therapeutic always wins the day. Thus, Scriptures then must made relevant and conform to the individual in need of therapy, but Wright would rather ask: “How do we translate human lives into the biblical narrative to live as part of the body of Christ in the world?”
A blog about present and future church, contemporary culture, intercultural dynamics, and the implications of Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom in today's context. Billy Calderwood is the lead pastor of Aqueous, a missional faith community doing life together in Santa Barbara, California.
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