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Book Review: Telling God's Story (by Peter Enns)

3/4/2013

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Telling God's Story: A Parents' Guide to Teaching the Bible, Peter Enns (Olive Branch Books, 2010).

This is an outstanding book. At only 99 pages, it can be a quick read, but it is packed with solid and useful information. Enns wrote this book as a guide for parents who desire to teach their children the Bible. He presents a threefold approach: in the early elementary years, focus on the story, life, and mission of Jesus; in the middle school years, focus on the "hook and hangers" of the Bible, specifically, the "pegs" of the larger story that they will be able to "hang" later knowledge upon; and in the high school years, begin to flesh out the Bible in more detail.

Enns suggests this progressive approach against other approaches because it focuses on the main "person" of the Bible--Jesus Christ--and on God's redemptive story, rather than our own theories or concepts of what we want the Bible to be about. For example, he encourages us not to teach the Bible simply as "stories" or as character studies, because these are often reduced to moralistic life lessons having nothing to do with the redemptive backstory; nor should we teach it (to children) book-by-book, because this approach often requires more maturity and a longer attention span than children have; nor should we teach it defensively, as in the current "creationism vs. evolution" arguments.

Instead, we should see the Bible not as a book of rules or a manual for morals but as a complex and fascinating story with a beginning, middle, and end. Our role as parents is to slowly work through this material with our children, linking the different parts of the story together over time. The Bible does not address modern issues the way we would like it to, so we must remember that it is the story of God's deliverance of his people and it presents a vision of what it means to live in that context. We acquire wisdom for living as we understand The Story in deeper ways.

Enns concludes with a five chapter discussion of this overarching Story which is very useful and informative.

This is a book for all parents, regardless of how old your children are. Although Enns discusses a teaching program for children as young as elementary age, I can easily see that parents can pick up in the first stage and go from there. There is nothing missed by starting to teach a high schooler more in depth about Jesus. The program can either be compressed or modified as older children have questions.

I can also see value in this approach for church-based classes, even for adults. Beginning with Jesus, and his centrality to God's story, and then branching out into biblical narrative, and then into biblical theology, a teacher could present a congregation with a very rich understanding of the Bible.

I highly recommend this book for any believer.
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Ministry as Profession or Vocation?

2/8/2011

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Yesterday I read the below quote in a neat little book called Words to Winners of Souls by Horatius Bonar. An older book, but still very valuable, as he calls the minister to true conversion and an accurate understanding of his job—not to deliver sermons and go on the occasional visit, but to work diligently in every way to convert people to God, and so to save them.

"To deliver sermons on each returning Lord's Day, to administer the Lord's Supper statedly, to pay an occasional visit to those who request it, to attend religious meetings—this, we fear, sums up the ministerial life of multitudes who are, by profession, overseers of the flock of Christ. An incumbency of thirty, forty or fifty years often yields no more than this. So many sermons, so many baptisms, so many sacraments, so many visits, so many meetings of various kinds—these are all the pastoral annals, the parish records, the ALL of a lifetime's ministry to many! Of SOULS that have been saved, such a record could make no mention."

Challenging. I pray that after 30–50 of ministry that I will not realize I have been ministering in vain.
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Quick Book Reviews: Mission and Evangelism

1/22/2011

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See this thread that details my project to read at least 52 books this year. At that thread I list each book I've read and provide a brief summary of it. I'm writing these three brief book reviews in one post to provide a little more context.

The Missional Mom by Helen Lee

I read this book because it came highly recommended on a website I think highly of. Sadly, I was disappointed with it. Although I appreciated the variety of topics that Lee chose to write about, and her emphasis on her church, I was turned off by an incident related early in the book that I completely disagreed with. My view of this incident affected the way I viewed Lee's entire project.  Perhaps the most valuable lesson I learned from Lee's book is this: you can be both missional and a member of a "traditional" church. I already knew this, but I think many "missional" books underemphasize (or omit) this connection.

Update (2/14/2001): I want to be more positive about this book. As I've thought more about it, it was not right for me to largely dismiss the book because of what I disagreed with early on. In fact, Helen Lee has offered a very accessible primer on missional living. I don't have a particularly large collection of missional books, but of what I do have, Lee's book is perhaps the cleanest and simplest introduction to missional living. In other words, if I had to give someone one book on missional living out of my collection, I would more than likely give Lee's to a person.

Right Here, Right Now by Alan Hirsch and Lance Ford

I always enjoy reading Hirsch's books. Though I find them too theoretical for what they are, they are also filled with practical ideas and concepts. This book is no different. Hirsch wrote the first and last chapter and provides insights throughout the book. Ford wrote the majority of the book. The two worked out a good pattern--the book is engaging, interesting, theologically sound and theologically practical. I recommend it if you want to learn how to engage people in mission for the sake of Jesus Christ.

Church Planting is for Wimps by Mike McKinley

I loved this book! I'm finding that anything in the 9Marks series hits the mark, so to speak. McKinley was an intern at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., and followed Mark Dever's suggestion that he plant in a church in northern Virginia. His efforts led him and his wife to revitalize an already existing church, rather than plant a new one. This short book details how he went about the process of revitalization, with an emphasis on gathering around the word of God, maintaining integrity with the membership rolls, creating an accurate and useful statement of faith, and changing the church's constitution and by-laws to organize around biblical leadership (elders). A final chapter encourages a dedication to faithfulness, not numbers. Very encouraging! I highly recommend this book for anyone in church ministry.

It was interesting to read these three books inside of the same way. In my opinion, too many books written from a supposedly missional orientation leave the organizational church out. They include discussions of the church but with much more nuance. For example, Hirsch and Ford tell a story about a group who had bush walking as a hobby but could only meet on Sunday. This became their "church." I'm personally uncomfortable with designating this activity "church." That doesn't mean it's wrong; this is still something I'm processing as I study scripture and keep reading. To me, despite the problems I had with Lee's book, one strength was her ability to create a bridge between the organizational church and missional activity.

McKinley's book focused more on the outreach activities of the church as evangelism. In my opinion, many missionally-oriented books simply describe ways of evangelizing people with integrity. These writers and practitioners cringe at the traditional methods of evangelism, as do I. But evangelism can be done properly and with integrity. There is much to learn from the missional movement and their books about evangelism without throwing away the organizational church (despite its flaws). McKinley fills in these gaps and provides the necessary building blocks while maintaining a witness to the community around the church.
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Book Review: The Mentor Leader

1/17/2011

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See this thread for an ongoing record of what I have read in 2011, combined with brief reviews.

The Mentor Leader by Tony Dungy

This book is a nice follow up to reading Tony's earlier memoir, Quiet Strenth. (I have yet to read Uncommon, though I would like to, so if any of my blog readers would like to send me a gift....) Although this book was good and useful, I think I prefer Quiet Strength because Tony shared many of the same principles but they were better contextualized in his personal examples (in my opinion). Still, this book is an excellent resource for people who want to mentor others.

Two of Tony's key insights that I really resonated with are: 1) mentoring is a way to "build into" someone else's life; and 2) good mentors will never be known by their fruit because their fruit will receive all the attention. Mentors must be willing to live in the shadows of their results, so to speak.

The concept of "building into" someone's life, which Tony repeated over and over, was very important to me. Sometimes in business, or in church ministry (my sphere), we can lose focus on building people because we become distracted by trying to build an organization. Organizations are made up of people, and people must be built to strengthen the organization. As Jesus taught that the "Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27), so it is with the organization: it exists for people, not people for it. When we "build into" the organization and neglect "building into" the life of the people within the organization, we end up with a cold, empty shell. Rather, we should "build into" people and work with their strengths and abilities, even if it means restructuring the organization.

The second key insight was perhaps more important to me, because I have never seen this idea emphasized in a leadership book as clearly as Tony emphasized it. Good mentors, because they "build into" the life of another, will often see the fruit of their mentorship overtake them. Good mentors must be people of humility who are focused on the betterment of others ahead of their own recognition. For example, Tony says that when we mentor others--a football player, a businessperson, a child--people will always look at the end result: "What a great young man that is!" They will not often reflect on the training and mentoring that went into making that person the person they are. Good mentors understand this and are okay with this. There is no room for pride in mentoring.

If you are looking for a good book on leadership, this is a good one that will teach you the principles of mentoring and "building into" the lives of others. Build people, and the organization will thrive.
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Book Review: Money: God or Gift

1/14/2011

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See this thread for the list of books I've read this year (I'm trying to read at least 52 books this year).

Money: God or Gift by Jamie Munson

This is a short book in the Re:Lit series. It was very inexpensive and well worth it. Munson teaches along 3 themes from Luke 12--giving, priorities and stewardship. Yet, the book is much more than just a study of Luke 12, as Munson hops along to many different scriptures that teach about money and stewardship. His third section on stewardship was worth the cost of the book alone, as he provided many different examples of how stewardship can be practiced at different phases of life. Perhaps the most challenging part of the book for me was in the first section where Munson challenged me on saving, specifically whether I save money as a steward or out of fear and anxiety about the future.
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2011 Reading Record

1/11/2011

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A friend of mine shared his reading experiment with me and challenged me to do the same--read 52 books this year. I read probably closer to 100 books every year, but I want to use this blog post to record the better books I read this year, along with a brief summary of each book.

The Bible, English Standard Version. This is ongoing reading. The same friend and I are holding each other accountable to read the entire Bible through this year. I read and use many translations, but this ESV is a new one for me, so I'll link to it. Great Kindle price on this one.

The Bible, New Living Translation Study Bible. We use this at home in our daily family worship. I like the NLT quite a bit, especially for reading. I'm a little uncomfortable with some of its glosses (paraphrases), but overall I think this is an excellent reading Bible, and one that I will likely give to my son as he becomes older (barring the introduction of a better translation, of course). The study notes in this Bible are top notch, equaling those, in my opinion, in the ESV Study Bible and surpassing those in the NIV Study Bible.

1. Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy (January). I enjoyed Tony's book immensely. His conviction and character challenged me to really think about the decisions I make and my ability to mentor people in all areas of my life. This book is an engaging story about Tony's life.

2. The Character of Leadership by Jeff Iorg (January). Iorg is a seminary president but has also been a pastor. His book is very solid reminder that pastoral ministry brings with it many challenges and tasks that can subvert character, rather than define it and build it up. Iorg reminds us to to take our character development seriously, not make excuses for our shortcomings, and work to get better.

3. Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God by John Piper (January). In this book, John Piper presents a case for reading as thinking, and thinking as a type of spiritual formation. Several dangers exist for our formation: relativism, anti-intellectualism, and pride. He advances a concept that we are only able to understand the things of God as he reveals them to us. "Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything" (2 Timothy 2:7) is one of Piper's key passages, illustrating the both-and of spiritual enlightenment.

4. Money: God or Gift by Jamie Munson (January). (see my review at link)

5. @stickyJesus by Tami Heim and Toni Birdsong (January). A good introductory book about online ministry. It's definitely for beginners who are exploring how they could build an online ministry presence. The first half of the book is a very helpful sociological and theological reflection on the hows and whys of living faith online.

6. Little Green Book of Getting Your Way by Jeffrey Gitomer (January). A nice, short, actionable book about persuasion and its uses in business (though it has a broader application). Gitomer focuses mainly on speaking, but also on writing, and provides small, meaty chapters with lots of things to apply. His key idea is that to be really persuasive, you have to be willing to help others get what they want. "Getting your way" has nothing to do with selfishness.

7. The Mentor Leader by Tony Dungy (January). (see my review at link)

8. Church Planting is for Wimps by Mike McKinley (January). (see my review at link)

9. The Missional Mom by Helen Lee (January). (see my review at link)

10. Right Here, Right Now by Alan Hirsch and Lance Ford (January). (see my review at link)

11. What He Must Be...If He Wants to Marry My Daughter by Voddie Baucham, Jr. (January). I really enjoyed Voddie's Family Driven Faith and expected a lot out of this one. It delivered. Although written more for fathers with daughters, there is still much here one can learn from to raise their sons to be the kind of man Voddie would let marry his daughter! In reality, Voddie presents biblical teaching about manhood. In particular, if a man is grounded in the gospel, has faith in Christ, and practices the four P's (priest, prophet, protector, and provider), he will be well on his way to being a godly man.

12. Puritan Evangelism by Joel Beeke (January). (see my review at link)

13. Radical by David Platt (January). I read this book last year, but after seeing a review by a fellow minister-friend, I decided to re-read it. I'm glad I did! Far from being Radical, Platt is simply encouraging those who call themselves followers of Jesus to do simply that--follow Jesus! His foil is the American Dream and our fascination with it. Using scripture and examples from around the world, Platt puts the focus back on Jesus and on the mission of trusting him and following him, even through sacrifice and trial. Recommended.

14. The Family at Church by Joel Beeke (January). A short book describing how a father can teach his family (and especially his children) about the importance of listening to and attending sermons, worship services and prayer meetings, as well as how he can prepare them for the same.

15. A Praying Life by Paul Miller (January). Hit or miss, for me. Longer than I'd like in a practical (not theoretical) book about prayer. However, the last section, where Miller describes his experience with prayer tools, is outstanding. There, I received a wonderful idea of using notecards for prayer, rather than a prayer list. Recommended for the last section, in particular.
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Quotes: John Woolman's Journal

8/5/2010

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I had something I was working on all day today so I didn't have time to create an audio devotional. Instead, I want to share with you two quotes from a tremendous book I'm reading called John Woolman's Journal.

John Woolman was an 18th century Friend (a Quaker) who spent a lot of time traveling the early American frontier visiting with different Friends groups and spreading the light of Christ. Woolman was convicted about slavery; he vehemently opposed it from a Christian perspective. This led him even to decline business where slaves were involved.

I hope you enjoy these two quotes. The first quote references Woolman's attitude at becoming a businessman, and the second quote references his realization after turning business away (he declined to write someone's will because the individual planned on passing his slaves to his children as part of the inheritance).

"I saw that an humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little, and that where the heart was set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving; but that commonly with an increase of wealth the desire of wealth increased. There was a care on my mind so to pass my time that nothing might hinder me from the most steady attention to the voice of the true Shepherd" (p. 18).

"I had fresh confirmation that acting contrary to present outward interest, from a motive of Divine love and in regard to truth and righteousness, and thereby incurring the resentments of people, opens the way to a treasure better than silver, and to a friendship exceeding the friendship of men" (p. 31).

What do you think of these quotes?
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How to Be a Neighbor

5/19/2010

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Peter Lovenheim, In the Neighborhood (Perigree, 2010).
ISBN 9780399535710

In Luke 10, after sending the 72 out on an evangelistic mission, Jesus teaches about neighborly conduct. In Jesus' understanding, being a neighbor is, or at least opens the door for, the mission.

Yet, we often would like to take the evangelistic mission without the charge to be a neighbor. After all, does it really matter? If we preach or teach and the person makes a decision, isn't that enough? But it was this mindset that Jesus challenged when he taught about being a neighbor. When we seek to justify our behavior we have missed Jesus' mission. Being a neighbor means being proactive and involved--the Samaritan used his time, resources, and money to help someone who, under different circumstances, would have been an enemy. We are encouraged to go and do the same.

Peter Lovenheim wrote an interesting book called In the Neighborhood. After hearing about a neighborhood family involved in a tragedy (a murder-suicide while the children were still in the house), he realized that he did not know the family and that likely no one in the neighborhood did. This realization set him upon a goal of creating a community within the neighborhood he lived in, to enable and help physical neighbors become real neighbors to each other.

The book is very enjoyable and a quick read. Lovenheim sought to learn more about his neighbors by spending more time with them, even including sleeping over at their homes! As he began to meet his neighbors more he began to become aware of needs and he was able to make neighborly introductions between neighbors.

One neighbor he met had cancer. He realized that to be a neighbor to her he was going to have to help her. One chapter is devoted to this quest. In that chapter, he states that "the real measure of success of my whole effort [to neighborize the neighborhood] would be if someone who previously did not know Patti...woud join me in helping her out. If that could happen...we would have a real community" (204). Thanks to Lovenheim's work, it did happen. Patti and several other neighbors connected and Patti did not have to struggle alone.

I really enjoyed this book. It left me with several ideas I am thinking through:
  • Being a neighbor to others is hard work. It takes time and sacrifice to get to really know someone. We cannot be real neighbors to people we see simply on a casual basis. (Wake-up call to churches here--if we spend only an hour a week with each other, and most of that in passive listening, how are we being a neighbor to each other?)
  • It takes dedication and persistence. Once we have sacrificed time and made a real effort to get to know someone, it takes time and effort to maintain the relationship! Sometimes, we may have to call a neighbor whose mail appears to be piling up. We may need to finish mowing our yard and then spend another hour at an elderly neighbor's mowing hers. This is what we're called to when we embark on a goal of being a neighbor to others.
  • It is more than merely "being nice." We are not a neighbor to someone simply because we say "hi" when we're both out collecting our mail. Being a neighbor is a mindset; we need to be thinking and acting neighborly to actually be one.
Lovenheim concluded his book with a statement from someone else. It's a fitting ending to this post:

"If we all cared about our neighbors, we could change the world one street at a time" (236).

Let us go and do likewise.
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The Bible as Improv

5/11/2010

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How do you read the bible?

Ron Martoia, in his new book, The Bible as Improv, points out (accurately) that all bible reading is interpretation. To understand is to interpret. Otherwise, we bog down in details about what is timeless and what is cultural. In other words, what can we ignore and what are we obligated to do.

Here's an example: In 1 Timothy 2:8-15 Paul says both that women are to be silent in worship (women are not permitted to teach and/or assume authority over a man) and that women are not to have elaborate hairstyles and wear "gold or pearls or expensive clothes." In conservative churches, we uphold the former teaching as essential and required but not the latter teaching. I personally know of no church that bars their women from doing their hair however they'd like and wearing gold or pearl jewelry. I also personally know several churches that prevent their women from teaching men.

How do we hold these things together? How do we look at one passage, and in that passage find things that are universal and timeless on one hand, but on the other hand, find things that are cultural and time-bound? This way of reading seems very arbitrary and open to abuse of interpretation by the one reading.

Martoia proposes a different way--that of seeing the bible as a classic. He argues that, while the bible may be or is much more than a classic, it is at least a classic in that it forms and shapes our worldview according to the spiritual categories represented in it. We ought to read it as we read other classics of literature (Shakespeare, Homer, etc.) by reading entire books in one sitting, or by reading larger sequential chunks. Reading the bible verse-by-verse, in a piecemeal way, is not how it was intended to be read.

Martoia, building off the work of N.T. Wright, proposes that we see the bible as a script. This script is made of up of five acts of which we are missing the fifth (because the work of the church is the fifth act). The first four acts are 1) creation; 2) the fall; 3) the life and ministry of Israel; and 4) the life and ministry of Jesus. The fifth act, from which we take our cue, is missing. But we have clues about how it will end (Romans 8; 1 Corinthians 15) and how we are to "fill in the gaps" (the New Testament). It is up to us, as "actors," to understand the first four acts so we can live out the fifth act and complete the script.

Since we don't have the script in front of us, we cooperate with the Spirit to improv our way forward, much like jazz musicians improv during their play. We improv based on the themes and tones we pick up from the other four acts. As we read the bible in large chunks (and read books sequentially and straight through), we begin to understand the themes and tones and how they play out through the script-ure. We read the bible for this larger story, God's story, and discover the importance of the smaller details in this larger context.

Martoia offers some ways churches and groups might approach bible reading as an improvisation of the first four acts of a five-act script:
  • Read a large portion of scripture (say, 9 chapters) and discuss both the themes that arise from this section and how those themes connect to previous themes from earlier readings. Which act of the script are you in and how does this act connect with earlier and later acts?
  • Articulate answers to questions about plot, story-lines, characters, and the actions of key characters.
  • Teachers should act as master story connectors who understand the sweep of the biblical story, facilitate conversation around that story, and help people connect their stories to God's story and imagine the future of their stories.
This is a really good book about bible reading and interpretation. Martoia popularizes the work of N.T. Wright, Walter Brueggemann, and James Fowler to discuss how to read the bible for spiritual growth and for faithfulness to God's story. It is very readable and even contains a study guide for groups to work through as they read it. Highly recommended.
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The Myth of a Christian Nation

5/10/2010

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Chapter 6: The Myth of a Christian Nation

In chapter 6, Boyd addresses several negative consequences of viewing the US as a Christian nation, which he refers to as the "myth of a Christian nation."

First, this myth harms global missions because US aggression becomes associated with Christ when America is identified as a Christian nation. This view compromises the spread of the kingdom of God (KoG) because the KoG is associated by others as tainted by or because of the kingdom of the sword, which is how all kingdoms of the world operate.

If we profess allegiance to Jesus, Boyd argues, we must commit ourselves to proclaiming in action and word the truth that the kingdom of God always looks like him. When the US operates by the power of the sword, it is not evincing the love of Christ to others. We must resist this myth for the sake of the spread of the kingdom of God.

Second, this myth harms missions within the US because civil religion is seen as real Christianity. Civil religion is useful to bind people together and to give them a shared vision to work towards, but it is only an aspect of the kingdom of God. There are two dangers in this: 1) We may lose our missionary zeal because we believe we live in an already-Christian nation; there is not much need to evangelize because most people already know God. 2) We end up wasting time and resources o the civil religion, trying to tweak it to make it more "right" or "godly," rather than spreading the kingdom of God.

Instead, what if we did the kingdom of God? What if, instead of tweaking the civil reigion, what if we fed the hungry, found housing for the homeless, etc. What if we replicated the loving sacrifice of Jesus to all people, at all times, in all places, regardless of their circumstances or merit?

Third, this myth tempts us to trust the power of the sword to create the conditions by which the kingdom of God might spread. This is faulty thinking because it assumes that, once overtaken by the power of the sword, people will be willing to listen to or accept the power of the cross. This myth causes us to trust the kingdom of the sword to change things rather trusting God in prayer.

What if, instead, we truly believed that we can influence God through prayer? What if truly believed that God was seeking to bring his kingdom to bear in our midst and we worked for that, "from below," as it were?

We can counter these myths by focusing on the kingdom of God. But it will be difficult and not all who claim to follow Jesus will be on board. Our goal needs to be to love Jesus and others in his name...not the expansion of the kingdom of this world.

What do you think?
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