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Title: The End of the World As We Know It: Clear Direction for Bold and Innovative Ministry in a Postmodern World by Chuck, Jr. Smith ISBN: 1578564026 Publisher: Waterbrook Press Pub. Date: 16 January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Resource for Postmodern Ministry
Comment: Chuck Smith Jr. has provided us with a terrific resource in understanding the challenges of postmodernity and ways in which the church can enagage it. He's very easy to read and best of all, this is a book which can bridge the gap best for churches who would call themselves very conservative. It's worth the read.
Rating: 2
Summary: The end of fundamentalism, as I have known it
Comment: We can be grateful that Chuck Smith Jr. has given us a well-written, easily digestible, and profoundly insightful analysis of "The End of the World As We Know It." His depiction of the cultural changes underway in postmodern times is one of the best in print. However, the overall strategy he urges Christians to employ amidst these changes is marred by its lack of consistency with what the New Testament contemplates. You would be hard-pressed to find the Apostle Paul "re-visioning" the church in many of the ways Smith suggests. While his program may be helpful in rooting out the peculiar cultural and "modernist" errors of American fundamentalism, he seems to replace them with another set of peculiarities. (Post-modernist ones...) ______________________
The bottom line: We applaud his acknowledged personal efforts to learn from the failures of his "fundamentalist" past. However, we think his "road map" for the future fails to sufficiently root out the same kinds of errors. Like so many other books in this genre, its moments of true brilliance are undermined - ultimately - by an underlying accommodation to postmodern culture.
It is time for something truly revolutionary to meet the challenge of these revolutionary times. Unfortunately The End of the World As We Know It does not meet the criteria sufficiently.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chuck Smith Jr is a thinker, and certainly worth your time
Comment: Chuck Smith Jr is a deep thinker. And while he's solid on the basic grounds of Christianity, he delightfully and gracefully rejects things of an emotional nature, and instead steers his church towards rational Christianity.
I attend Chuck Smith Jr's church in Capistrano Beach, CA. It's called the black sheep Calvary, apparently because it doesn't hold the party line that all the other Calvary Chapel's are standardized on, which of course all stems from Chuck Smith Sr.
Chuck Smith Sr had a deep impact on the United States in the 70's (or was it the 60's), resulting in a huge network of Christ-centered Calvary Chapel churches that bridged cultural boundaries of the day (esp. Hippie culture). That was then. Chuck Sr is old now, and wastes time chiding the youth about their body piercings and unkemptness. Those that grew old with him love him dearly.
Chuck Smith Jr is following in the footsteps of his dad, bringing Christianity to today's culture, while shedding some generational baggage along the way, which unavoidably means thinking a little differently than dad. All pastor's sons must be black sheep in some sense.
If you value your brain and use it regularly, and are a Christian because it is more appealing to your intellect than the alternatives, then I think you will benefit from reading anything written by Chuck Smith Jr, or Rick Warren for that matter. And if you ever find yourself in the Dana Point/Capistrano Beach area and get to listen to Chuck Jr personally - well that'd just be icing on the cake.
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Title: More Ready Than You Realize by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0310239648 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 078795599X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 28 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley J. Grenz ISBN: 0802808646 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Church on the Other Side, The by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0310237076 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Post-Modern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century Church by Leonard Sweet ISBN: 0805421378 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: 15 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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