Well, the pagan New Year’s Day is approaching, and so it’s time for year-end kind of stuff, like this preview.
I’ll be working on the Church Growth series based on Beyond Megachurch Myths for the next several posts.
After that, I’ll be taking on the newly published book Richland Hills and Instrumental Music: A Plea to Reconsider. Some 20,000 copies of this delightful little tome are being sent (free of charge!) to every Church of Christ in the US to help us see how Richland Hills is damned for having an instrumental worship — even those members who continue to sing a cappella.
After that, we’ll reflect on Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon’s classic Resident Aliens and the newly released sequel, Where Resident Aliens Live. This is really good stuff, and I’m looking forward to digging deeply into the scriptures with these guys.
I’m also working up some thoughts on hermeneutics I call the “Third Way,” but I’m not sure how long it’ll take to think through it. And I keep meaning to get to predestination.
Hopefully, without being too rigid, that’s kind of the mix I’ll be presenting — practical thoughts on church leadership, challenges to Pharisaism in the Churches of Christ, and some good theology outside the Church of Christ box.
