tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22646012.post126939382932477362..comments2023-11-04T00:19:12.362+11:00Comments on I'm ramblin' again: Is God Killing the Uniting Church?Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04773963984084893424noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22646012.post-2936095018183866282010-02-02T08:53:48.576+11:002010-02-02T08:53:48.576+11:00AH -- May God bless you as you find a space and a ...AH -- May God bless you as you find a space and a community.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773963984084893424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22646012.post-33306177700939861912010-02-02T05:34:27.107+11:002010-02-02T05:34:27.107+11:00After church-shopping our way through a number of ...After church-shopping our way through a number of mainstream churches in South Bend Indiana, our first-hand experience (in this place) would support Dr. Hauerwas' thesis that "Mainstream Protestantism in America is dying" - lots of beautiful old church buildings with stories of booming congregational life in the good ol' days - but today, these churches are visibly struggling.<br><br />For a good taste of what Dr. Hauerwas has to say about why "God is killing Protestantism and perhaps Christianity in America," check-out: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Resident-Aliens-Life-Christian-Colony/dp/0687361591/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265046717&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow"><i>Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony</i></a><br /><br>A selection of quotes: <br><br /><i>"This church knows that its most credible form of witness (and the most 'effective' thing it can do in the world) is the actual creation of a living, breathing, visible community of faith."</i> pg. 47<br><br /><i>“The only way for the world to know that it is being redeemed is for the church to point to the Redeemer by being a redeemed people.”</i> Pg. 94<br><br /><i>“At every turn the church must ask itself: Does it really make any difference, in our life together, in what we do, that in Jesus Christ God is reconciling the world to himself?”</i> Pg. 95<br><br /><i>“Early on we asserted that the challenge facing today’s Christians is not the necessity to translate Christian convictions into a modern idiom, but rather to form a community, a colony of resident aliens which is so shaped by our convictions that no one even has to ask what we mean by confessing belief in God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”</i> pg. 170<br><br><br />AH<br /><i>shopping for a church that isn't dying in South Bend Indiana</i>Andrew + Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01153978769330911662noreply@blogger.com