The Next Christian Analysis

Why does Ivory Christian have a moment when he really LOVED the game, but tried so hard to despise it? Christian shows how he truly loves the game but often fought to rid football from his life. He reveals to be befuddled, devoted and lacks the self-esteem to be a fine football player.

In a world that does not know the Gospel anymore, we must indulge in it, and love our fellow community though they may not share similar values, but find balancing in still remaining in our own values. Though many of times we find ourselves in opposition of the majority of the world, we must exude Christ love onto others as He does to us unconditionally. The author addresses ways in which we are able to live out our faith and still find a place within our community though they may not share similar values.

The author’s conclusion is persuasive because he seems to grasp the underlying heart of Christianity, the perseverance that has characterized them from the beginning. The author uses Jenkins’ statistical data to refute Jenkins’ assumptions derived from them and he does this using a keener eye for the presence of European Christianity with insider knowledge from his Dutch experiences. The belief he has that the Southern and Northern Christians are both “New Christians” is perfect use of his insider knowledge because as the Southern Christians are literally new, the Northern Christians have recently undergone a faith-shattering ordeal that left the survivors with a newly found understanding into the Christian faith (pg. 113).

As a Christian, I will personally evaluate theory based on my Christian perspective. So much of theory comes from science and science can be very removed from religion. A conscious effort must be made to include ethics and morals in science. There are tests that are conducted and research that has been gathered in ways that I do not support from a religious perspective. Thus, when evaluating theory, I will make sure that all methods that I choose to integrate into my practice abide by my beliefs.

"The purpose of developing a Christian view of the world is not merely to evaluate and judge the world, but to change it," (Boa, 2004). Having a Christian perspective is sufficiently hard in American yet includes the whole world and it can be somewhat trickier. Thinking Christianity majorly affects how somebody would work together abroad, in a worldwide economy. Concerning a Christian perspective in a worldwide economy there are various issues that can come up. Distinctive nations and societies have diverse things that they consider worthy; in any case, when you are taking a gander at it from a Christian viewpoint you may need to handle things in an alternate way. Because something is adequate or legitimate on the planet does not make it worthy

As expected, the reformed evangelical community was critically affected by the fall of Mark Driscoll and the closing of Mars Hill, but not like you may think. Rather than writing-off Christianity or drifting left towards the emergent or progressive movements, many young believers followed the compass of Holy Scripture towards

“Continuity Thinking and the Problem of Christian Culture” by Joel Robbins, “Discontinuity and the discourse of conversion” by Mathew Engelke and “Discontinuity and the discourse of conversion” by Liana Chua all examine anthropological approaches to Christian conversion and continuity and discontinuity discourses.

The Destiny of the Unevangelized Debate has been a concern for Christians throughout the years. There have been questions to arise as to what actually happens to those who have never heard the Gospel. According to Body and Eddy, “the issue of the destiny of the unevangelized forces Christians to wrestle with the seeming tension between the universality of God’s love and the particularity of the path to salvation or one’s personal relationship with Christ.” Exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism are three ways that theologians address the issue of the destiny of the unevangelized. The text takes on these three ways through four views which are the Restrictivist View, Universal Opportunity View, Postmorten Evangelism View, and Inclusivist View.

As the author informed us earlier, when God begins to work in us, He plans to give us nothing less than perfection. Despite the fact that we may want to settle for less, he has his own plan for us, and that is to be perfect. Therefore, before becoming a Christian, it is important that one “counts the cost” Since becoming perfect is somewhat of a rough journey. Nonetheless, the author assures us that there is no need to worry about it since God will do the work; our job is to allow Him to do it. Furthermore, while we may not accomplish a total perfection in this life, we will accomplish it after death. The only power that can stop him, the author makes clear, is you. So, he says that the process will be long and in part, painful, but that is

While reading the text and the scripture this week I was enlightened as to how much Christianity and the church has changed from the it’s beginning. “At best all our versions of Christianity are inadequate; but we would be saved much inadequacy if we did not test them by our own prejudice and presuppositions or by agreement with this or that theologian but set them in light of the New Testament and above all the light of the cross.” What a thought provoking statement! Digging into the text and the scripture this week many things have been brought to my attention; the first and foremost is that Christianity has become a watered down version of what it was meant to be. The church has allowed the world to take the scripture out of context and twist it into something that conforms to the way of the world.

Christian practice e.g., Leviticus 14:8, (Fairchild, 2012). Baptism was also used to initiate converts to Judaism, and the Essenes, contemporaries of Jesus, practiced a daily ritual of bathing. Sharing the bread and wine is held to remember Christ's first coming, anticipate his second coming, and create a unity, or communion, of believers. The male role in the Christian religion is to be the head of his home (Fairchild, 2012). The woman’s role is to be loved and to be a helpmate to her husband (Fairchild, 2012). The activities of strong, capable women have broken many barriers to the full participation of women in the life of the Church, and women now serve as influential leaders, ministers, theologians, and even bishops in some communities.

If the church wants to truly reach a Post-Christian world, new methods are required. As one pastor stated, it is about “translation, not transformation of the message.” The message never changes, but our methods must. If they do not understand it, how can we expect them to apply it? We all know to well, information without application leads to frustration and anyone who is frustrated will not last in the process.

In many respects—with our contemporary affirmation of abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and so on—Christians find themselves in a society not very much different from the one in which, prior to Constantine’s conversion, Christians were so severely persecuted. The beneficial effects of Constantine’s conversion, we might say, are coming undone. We are falling back into a pagan society where Christians are no longer welcome. So, in this celebration of Constantine’s conversion, we should also pause to reflect more deeply on why we, in Western society, seem to be converting back to

A world full of Christians is a world in decline. Desiring release from suffering in the here and now, Christians imagine the existence of illusory, utopian worlds beyond this one: the Christian Heaven, or a Platonic “realm of

The emerging church movement consists of a diverse group of people who identify with Christianity, but who feel that reaching the postmodern world would requires it to radically reshape the chruch’s beliefs and practices to conform to postmodernism.[14]