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Be a ‘Come-Outer’!
"Coming Out" is a hot slogan today, but not many people apply it to Christians--but they did once! 
The First Christians
From PBS.ORG - an intellectual and visual guide to the new and controversial historical evidence which challenges familiar assumptions about the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity.
The Shock of Culture Shock
Christians should stop building institutions.
Let's do something simpler: Revolution.
Revolution is what JC invented.
But we're stuck in Culture Shock.
Revolution of Joy
Revolutions are always bloody affairs, with winners and losers. Not so with the Jesus Revolution. No tanks, guns, armies or bloody purges could ever do what God did when He pulled together such odd companions: joy and revolution.
Radical Terms
Every revolution needs its own language. Some Christian terms need to be ditched.
The Fear Factor
People are aware of the big differences between various forms of Christianity, and it's confusing. But the differences are really quite simple: traditions! When Christian communities get tangled in traditions, the "Fear Factor" spreads and grows, and the Bible gets irrelevant and confusing. Grand institutions are built for security, but institutions also snuff-out spiritual
Heartless Institutions
In The Dawn of Covenant Theology we described the rise of Reformed Theology and its distinctive characteristics, especially the phenomena of the Visible and Invisible Church. We now show how it further developed into a phenomena in church history we call Institutionalized Christianity.
The Dawn of Covenant Theology
A group of Gen-X Christian leaders are emerging (not Emergent) with innovative church-planting strategies and a refreshing, quasi-relevancy untypical for the old Reformed school of theology. In order to appreciate their (belated, but good) restlessness, we now continue to trace the development of this theology from part one in The Restless Reformed,
The ‘Restless Reformed’
We love our Reformed brethren like Mark Driscoll, guest speaker at XSI, but we wince at the evangelists of Reformed theology! (See John Piper's eloquent sermon at Mars Hill.) Irregardless, it is useful to know the lively history of theology and its powerful impact on Christian lives today. It raises a simple
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