51% Christian: Finding Faith After Certainty
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1506400191 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Mark Stenberg is a founding pastor of two innovative, emerging churches: House of Mercy Church in St. . He holds a PhD from Northwestern University and regularly teaches preaching practicums at Luther Seminary. Paul, Minnesota and Mercy Seat Lutheran Church in Northeast Minneapolis
This theology is dead serious, yet playful and liberating. Henk-Jan van der Klis In an era where doubt is hot and postmodern individualism rules, it's refreshing to look to a fresh lens of theology. In a time when the church seems obsessed with being either relevant or purpose driven, Mark Stenberg's 51% Christianity: Finding Faith after Certainty chose a third way: freedom. This book's different from the set of propositions usually defining ones theology. Stenberg not only challenges his readers to read the Bible's grand story backwards, surrounds himself with theologians like Karl Barth an. "Buy a copy for yourself and also one for everyone you've ever met" according to Grace Pardun Alworth. This book is charming, liberating, and smart. Stenberg critiques our tendency to oversimplify Christianity and breaks open the liberative power of the Gospel. Stenberg's attention to detail, artful writing, and snark has made reading this book an enjoyable experience for sure.. This book would be excellent to read with congregational leadership Mark Stenberg's brilliance shines through in this book. How we connect what God is doing in the world into our daily lives (and for what purpose) permeates 51% Christian. This book would be excellent to read with congregational leadership, young adult eucational gatherings and is for anyone who wonders what it is to really be a follower of Jesus Christ in the 21st century.
Mark Stenberg is a founding pastor of two innovative, emerging churches: House of Mercy Church in St. Paul, Minnesota and Mercy Seat Lutheran Church in Northeast Minneapolis. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University and regularly teaches preaching practicums at Luther Seminary.
Faith is about relationship: a living, daily relationship, based on trust, and active in concrete, daily practices.With this sort of freedom in grace, Stenberg takes a fresh new look at theology, thirteen topics that, one by one, examine the best of what the Bible and the history of Christian practitioners have to say. If we truly are encountered by this magnificent love of the Trinity, then faith becomes a living and active daily practice. According to a proper Trinitarian understanding, God is essentially relationship, a relationship of sheer, active, ecstatic, self-giving love. Looking through this grace-based, radically relational lens, the author offers a lively and engaging discussion of topics such as creation, violence, love, death, heaven, and hell. But you will not be bored.. You might not always agree. God is not an idea. Christian faith is not a set of propositions you either believe or reject. But, in the end, it's not about you. You now have permission to doubt, to question, to get angry at God. Just like a healthy marriage or a close and loyal friendship, it becomes something you choose every day.This "51% Christian" moniker is a ridiculous label with a deadly serious point