Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel

By John P McKayMerry E Wiesner-HanksClare Haru Crowston, et al.

Book Overview

How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel If you're brave enough to take an honest look at the issues facing the culture-controlled church--and the issues in your own life--read on. Do you ever look at how the Christian faith is being lived out in the new millennium and wonder if we're not doing what we're supposed to be doing? That we still haven't quite "gotten it"? That we've missed the point regarding many important issues? It's understandable if we've relied on what we've been told to believe or what's widely accepted by the Christian community. But if we truly turned a constructive, critical eye toward our beliefs and vigorously questioned them and their origins, where would we find ourselves? Best-selling authors Brian McLaren and Tony Campolo invite you to do just that. Join them on an adventure--one that's about uncovering and naming faulty conclusions, suppositions, and assumptions about the Christian faith. In Adventures in Missing the Point, the authors take turns addressing how we've missed the point on crucial topics such as: salvation, the Bible, being postmodern, worship, homosexuality, truth, and many more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310267137
• ISBN13: 9780310267133
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

It's an Adventure!

I bought this book while preparing to teach a class on the Emerging Church for my seminary. While I am still adapting to Brian McLaren's style, I share a denominational identity with Tony Campolo, so I was happy to find a book that featured both people in dialog. Having established that I'm already biased in favor of the writers, I was extremely happy with the book, both in terms of the positions they took and the general...

Challenging & Thought-Provoking

"Adventures in Missing the Point" is one of my favorite books. I'm not saying that I agree with all that it asserts. But the very fact that I don't is the reason I liked it so much. It was challenging and thought-provoking. It offered new and fresh perspectives on traditional Christian thoughts. It seems increasing rare to find a contemporary Christian title that challenges and spurs its readers in such a way. However...

Succinct, unintimidating, and very teachable...

Reading the other reviews for this book, I'm reminded how WIDE is the space we inhabit under the banner of Christianity. And I am glad it is so. Moreso, I am thankful that individuals like McLaren, Campolo, Leonard Sweet and Dave Tomlinson ("The Post Evangelical") are comfortable with conversational approaches to these difficult issues of transitional cultures, worldviews and religious environments. They seem more than...

Conversations for a Postmodern Future

Brian McLaren and Tony Compolo play off each other like a couple of good friends previewing each other's sermons a couple of weeks ahead. One points out structural or logical weaknesses that the other might have overlooked, agrees to disagree on points that connect directly to the reader's life, and (you can bet) greatly influenced what was ultimately presented as a sermon, conference talk, or over coffee with a fellowship...

Have I really missed the point that Bad!

This book is a great read. Mclaren's A New Kind of Christian was the first book of his which I read and opened my mind up for this deeper look at the individual issues. I am normally quite a quick reader, however with this I had to spend a lot of time. I found myself only really ever being able to read a chapter a night so that I could have the entire next day a school and work to formulate my thoughts and process what I had...