The Church after Innovation

The Church after InnovationShining a Light on the Problem of Innovation Churches and their leaders have innovation fever. Innovation seems exciting a way to enliven tired institutions, embrace creativity, and be proactive and is a superstar of the business world. But this focus on innovation may be caused by an obsession with contemporary relevance, creativity, and entrepreneurship that inflates the self, lacks theological depth, and promises burnout. In this follow up to

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A Rich Vision for the Church's Future

Christians have been as much divided by their faith as united

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providing an accessible introduction that explains how the Creed is anchored in the Bible and how it came to be written and confessed in the early history of the church

He shows that a Christian approach to politics is aimed at tending and protecting these "mortal goods" and argues for a more constrained view of our mortal life and our political duty than is common in both progressive and conservative Christian perspectives

Helen Collins gives a novel summary explanation drawn from the spiritual gifts

Previously published as Holy Teaching

Who is Allah

a respected New Testament scholar offers a substantive evangelical commentary on 2 Corinthians

The approach Sandoval argues for in The Moral Vision of Proverbs is that of virtue ethics

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