Category Archives: Kingdom Conspiracy by Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Defining “Mission” in Kingdom Terms, Part 1

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. In chapter 7, Scot lays out 9 observations for the nature of the local church in terms of the kingdom of heaven. First, kingdom … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Defining “Kingdom”

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. I’m skipping quite a bit of material — to make sure you buy the book. And it’s a good book, an easy read, and … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Distinguishing the Ideal from Reality

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. It often seems that we want to use “church” to refer to the imperfect, often messy reality of Christians in community today, and we … Continue reading →

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Post up at Wineskins

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Jay F Guin

Matt Dabbs recently posted on 10 Predictions about the Future of Churches of Christ. In response, I’ve posted Reflecting on “10 Predictions about the Future of Churches of Christ.” In particular, I address the relationship of parachurch organizations to the … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Discipleship

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Discipleship Scot next urges us to an ever-deepening discipleship (which he doesn’t quite define). He urges three practices: * First, preach from the entire … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Conversion

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Conversion Now, the A-B-A’ way of telling the scriptures’ story has certain implications. For example, if the plan is for God to be king, … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: The Bible in Two Stories

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Scot points out that both the local church and academia have learned — finally — to read the Bible as story. One such story … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Social Justice

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Changing culture Scot challenges the Pleaded Pants and Skinny Jeans assumption that Christians should be about changing the culture of the world as Kingdom … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Pleated Pants

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. In contrast to the Skinny Jeans kingdom approach, Scot speaks of the Pleated Pants theorizing of academia. A little more completely, [the Pleated Pants … Continue reading →

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Scot McKnight’s Kingdom Conspiracy: Skinny Jeans

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Jay F Guin

We’re discussing Scot McKnight’s latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. In the last post, we considered the various Millennial theories. In contemporary evangelical discussions, however, the idea of “kingdom” has been discussed in very different … Continue reading →

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