A Christian call to Understand Our Western Story
Apr 30, 2008
A few weeks ago, Kaleo hosted a conference Living at the Crossroads: Church & Mission. At this conference, Michael Goheen spent three days helping us understand the current cultural story we live in. The Western Story that we live in is rooted in the faith of progress propelled by reason and science.
The three sessions from the Living at the Crossroads: Church & Mission conference are now up for download. At the sessions we received a packet of all the PowerPoints to go along with these, I'll ask Dr. Goheen if we can release those. Here they are:
Session 1
- Understanding Our Cultural Story: Our Life through a Lens (PART 1)
- Understanding Our Cultural Story: Our Life through a Lens (PART 2)
Session 2
Session 3
- Living at the Crossroads of the Biblical and Cultural Story: Relevance and Faithfulness (PART 1)
- Living at the Crossroads of the Biblical and Cultural Story: Relevance and Faithfulness (PART 2)
- Living at the Crossroads of the Biblical and Cultural Story: Relevance and Faithfulness (PART 3)
Also, there are three gospel stories by David Fairchild, Jeff Vanderstelt & Caesar Kalinowski, visit the conference session archives.
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For those of you interested in learning more about how living in the Western Story impacts your Christianity, I'd encourage you to pre-order Michael Goheen's book Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview. The sessions he did at the Church Bootcamp caused a room filled with church planters and ministry leaders to feel overwhelmed with the tensions we live in.
Description: How can Christians live faithfully at the crossroads of the story of Scripture and postmodern culture? In Living at the Crossroads, authors Michael Goheen and Craig Bartholomew explore this question as they provide a general introduction to Christian worldview. Ideal for both students and lay readers, Living at the Crossroads laysout a brief summary of the biblical story and the most fundamental beliefs of Scripture. The book tells the story of Western culture from the classical period to postmodernity. The authors then provide ananalysis of how Christians live in the tension that exists at the intersection of the biblical and cultural stories, exploring the important implications in key areas of life, such as education, scholarship, economics, politics, and church.








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Drew Goodmanson on May 1, 2008 10:28am
I highly recommend the audio, it will truly challenge you in a good way. As our community wrestles with this it will certainly lead us to tensions of how to live out the gospel in our Western culture. I'm encouraged as our Missional Community discusses these tensions and seeks to honor God in how we respond to His grace.