Category Archives: Book Reviews

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

I’m a Scot McKnight fan, and I’ve just received a copy of his latest book Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. (I had to pay for mine.) And it’s some kind of big deal. I … Continue reading →