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Subject: New Christian or New Christianity

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Date Posted: 20:32:46 11/11/02 Mon

I really like Adam's "confuse and compel." As long as it is not we who end up confused. And Yeager is right when he implies that Taylor-like American evangelicalism needs some reshaping.(Forgive me if that is not what you meant.) But I think a problem is created when we start reshaping so much and in such a reactionary way that we do not compel but are compelled by the world.
Many coolguys, including myself, have expressed on this website a sort of distaste for the sappy christianity often found in Taylor students. Understandable enough. But did coolguys ever take that type of faith so seriously as to have it leave such a bad taste in the mouth? I guess what I mean is, shouldn't that sentimental or legalistic stuff we bumped into occasionally in college be easily shrugged off with a dose of grace? Or even laughed off as inconsequential? This is not a defense of Taylor nor of immature faith but I'm saying that if we are to find a satisfying answer to the question, "What should a new christian look like?" we need to do more than just say what it DOESNT look like. And yet it needs to include that which hasn't yet been in our experience. Some of that can probably be found by looking to the exciting changes and mutations that are going on in the chritian faith globally. Its an exciting time in history for an american christian to start with "Sola Scriptura" but then look around the world to see how the christian faith is being manifested in different cultures. And this "new" christianity does look alot like a return to "old" christianity. A good thing, I think.

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