All Evangelicals Must Read This!

From Dan Reid at the Addenda & Errata blog of IVP:

Where exactly do we get the idea that we should be building God’s kingdom? We may witness to it, testify to it, plant signs of it or work or build for (the word for introduces a big difference, as Tom Wright points out) it, etc. But it’s God’s kingdom, and consequently God is the one who is “building” it. As in “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.” (It’s a spiritual tonic to say those lines of the prayer with the emphasis just so). The best explanation for this mistaken Christian speech that I can come up with is that we’ve heard it said so often that we unthinkingly repeat it. But we need to stop, think and desist. (read full post)

More on Suburbs

Back in October of last year, I reflected on suburban planning and church community. On Monday of this week, I came across an interesting question in a headline in my RSS reader. The headline read, "Does sprawl make us fat?" The provided link led me to an article entitled, "Weighing In on City Planning: Could smart urban design keep people fit and trim?"

It all made me wonder if suburbanesque churches are more likely to have spritually and theologically out-of-shape members. Hmm...

In the meantime, let us contemplate the fate of the term 'Evangelical'.