The Next Christendom: the Coming of Global Christianity
Our book of the month by Philip Jenkins. Post your insights and observations on Chapters 1 and 2 in the comments section as you ponder:What do you think of Jenkins view of the passing of Western Christianity and the dawning of Southern Christianity?
The MO of the Southern Christian is third world, poor, morally conservative, open to the superatural and more interested in personal salvation than political activism. How does this go against the grain of the ministry trends in the Western church and the view that Christianity cannot survive in its present form?
-BERT
posted by GPI Gravel Road | 12:55 PM
1 Comments:
This has been encouraging read to me. I'm moving to Mexico City and am anxious to see God move. I'm only about 3 chapters in but find the insights, observation and predictions about the coming age very eye opening.
I'm convicted of my American/western centric view of Christianity as I have missed much of what God has done in the South and Asia in the past centuries. It does us some good to learn where we came from to see where we are going.
As we learn about what is going on in the world with Christendom we will be immediately drawn to the Pentecostal movement. See the CT article on the Pentecostals. http://stevevandiest.blogspot.com/2006/03/vibrancy-of-pentecostal-movement.html
To end from Jenkins p. 8 as a motivation to read the book: "These newer Churches preach deep personal faith and communal orthodoxy, mysticism and puritanism, all founded on clear scriptural authority. They preach messages that, to a Westerner, appear simplistically charismatic, visionary and apocalyptic."
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