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McLaren Boxed Set (A New Kind of Christian; The Story We Find Ourselves In; The Last Word and the Word After That)
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Exclusive Limited Edition Boxed Set—A Compelling Collection of Brian D. McLaren’s Best-Selling Fables
A New Kind of Christian begins the conversation and friendship between Pastor Dan Poole and Neil Oliver as they ask questions and reflect about faith, doubt, reason, mission, leadership, and spirituality in the emerging postmodern world. Sequels The Story We Find Ourselves In and Last Word and the Word After That broaden Dan and Neil’s conversations to include even more difficult faith-busting themes as they struggle to imagine a new vision of God and life with God—a life that is more truly biblical and faithful, more inspiring and challenging, more intellectually satisfying and emotionally healing than they might have imagined when they began their journey together.
New! Includes a Reader’s Guide for all three books written by Timothy Keel. Timothy Keel is the pastor of a Faith community called Jacob’s Well in Kansas City, Missouri.
Brian D. McLaren, named as one of the top 25 most influential evangelicals by Time magazine, is the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Washington-Baltimore area. He is the author of several books on contemporary and postmodern Christianity. For more information about Brian and his writing, please visit anewkindofchristian.com.
A New Kind of Christian and The Story We Find Ourselves In are Leadership Network publications. To learn more about Leadership Network, please visit Leadnet.org.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #151947 in Books
- Published on: 2005-10-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
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Timemagazine named Brian McLaren one of the Top 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in
A Boxed Set Collection of Brian McLaren’s Best-Selling Fables
A New Kind of Christian begins the conversation and friendship between Pastor Dan Poole and Neil Oliver, as they ask questions and reflect about faith, doubt, reason, mission, leadership, and spirituality in the emerging postmodern world. Together they come to see that beyond the constricted categories, clichés, and rigid mechanisms of modern Christianity lies a new possibility: a revitalized and vibrant faith that explores and expresses the teachings and mission of Jesus in a fresh, engaging way. Winner of a Christianity Today Award of Merit for Best Christian Living Title, 2002.
The Story We Find Ourselves Incontinues the conversation that began in A New Kind of Christian, Pastor Dan Poole and pal Neil Oliver take on difficult, faith-busting themes, from evolution and evangelism to death and the meaning of life—and reveal that the answers to life’s pressing spiritual questions often come from the most unlikely sources.
In The Last Word and the Word After That Pastor Dan and Neil and their widening circle of friends face and survive their doubts and dark nights of the soul as they begin to imagine a new vision of God and life with God—a life that is more truly biblical and faithful, more inspiring and challenging, more intellectually satisfying and emotionally healing than they might have imagined when they began their journey together.
About the Author
Brian D. McLaren is the founding pastor of
Customer Reviews
Brian McLaren gives a bold challenge! 
Brian McLaren seems to know what the Gospel is really all about: relationship. Jesus doesn't brow-beat people into salvation. It is a journey. A relationship. A love-affair of the heart. Jesus didn't give his disciples a theology test. He said "follow me"... into relationship. Into the journey of faith... that is what this is about... these books not only provide a great dialogue but the means of it is through relationship. A narrative. I love this style of writing and realize many will not get it and many will have an "ugh" reaction because Christianity has been so steeped in modernity and didactic rhetoric. Despite Jesus' teaching style being laced with story and context many will cry "heretical"... I know many who "believe" truths but don't actually live out the full-engaged gospel of Jesus in a redemptive and passionate way. These stories give context for the greater journey I hope we are all on...
Not for the faint-hearted
I ordered this book because I realised that there were many things I believed and never questioned. It's written as a story of two friends who explore differences in the way they interpret the bible, almost like a novel. This makes it so much more fun to read than the average inspirational/self-improvement book. I found it quite riveting.
If you are mature in your faith you should be mature enough to face some of the questions this book exposes. After having read this book, I find I'm stronger than ever in my faith and able to face other people's questions with far more confidence. If you've grown up in mainstream evangelical Christianity, beware: This book will challenge what you have been taught, so you may want to wait a year or two. If you're not involved in any kind of religion because mainstream Christianity has turned you off, this book may give you new hope.
A New Kind of Christian trilogy
McLaren's use of fiction in this series makes his difficult subject matter easy to read. It doesn't matter if you've grown up in the church & have a vast knowledge of the Bible & church doctrine, or if this is your first introduction to Christianity. McLaren does an excellent job of explaining difficult theological ideas via the conversations of his characters. However, this book is probably of most interest to individuals who are, for one reason or another, uncomfortable with being part of the Christian church today. McLaren's books give hope to those who want to be a part of the Christian faith without being part of the Christian church, as it is today. This triology is a good start, but I would also recommend reading some of McLaren's other books. I believe this series is his only fiction work, but his other books are also fairly easy to read.
