Status Updates From Our Secular Age: Ten Years ...

Pg 42. A porous self says not only that he is vulnerable to danger from these powers; a porous self also gains meanings and insignificance from outside himself.

Pg 108. And they say things like, "we have to figure out how to get rid of the buffered self and get back to the porous self." These people simply don't know what they're asking for. God help them if they ever have occasion to find out.

Without a common god, we lack a common good.

Without a common god, we lack a common good.

A needed message.

Short-term activism has its place, but it's ability to shape society and culture is limited, and it can tempt us to sacrifice long-term witness on the altar of short term political gain.

Pg. 42 Christianity is not a means to human flourishing.

Pg.89 instead , we should present our views humbly.....suggesting that Christianity provides the key to human flourishing.

😂some contextualization could clear some of the fog but not all. But you get that with many authors in one book.

Great alternative to pampering needs....
A better approach is to call the congregation in its diversity , to meet Christ where he is, even if it means asking people to redirect or abandon their various self defined spiritual paths. The lordship of Christ , not the lordship of consumers , should always hold the sway.

Christian still have an opportunity to present the gospel as a beautiful alternative to the cramped ideologies and immanence that dominate our landscape.

Informing read.

"The authentic self says, "This is me; you must except me as I am." But the vulnerable self says, "This is me; take me and transform me. The vulnerable self comes in the form not merely of a confession but of repentance."