A few days back, CJ Mahaney posted on Kevin DeYoung’s message from the “Next” conference in May 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland. CJ lauded Kevin’s call for “plodding visionaries” and listed several points from Kevin’s talk that developed his understanding of this term.
This term and the idea behind it caught in my filter, as the kids say nowadays. I don’t know how it strikes you, but that term seems to me to nicely sum up biblical Christian living as a “missional” believer. This isn’t necessarily the line of thinking that sells the most books, but it captures, I think, both the Christocentric idealism and the conscionable realism of the biblical authors. I want to look into this below (and would commend Hunter’s To Change the World, which has stimulated my thinking). This will be a bit lengthy–I’m warning you up front. Adjust your goggles; set phasers to stun.
There is a need for this kind of thinking and communication in our day among young people. Twentysomethings are notoriously and historically idealistic, of course. This isn’t new to our day. But it’s interesting to survey the culture at present. Idealism–even an unnuanced idealism–is alive and well. This despite a twentieth century marked by devastating wars, political corruption, the overturning of …
]]>A few days back, CJ Mahaney posted on Kevin DeYoung’s message from the “Next” conference in May 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland. CJ lauded Kevin’s call for “plodding visionaries” and listed several points from Kevin’s talk that developed his understanding of this term.
This term and the idea behind it caught in my filter, as the kids say nowadays. I don’t know how it strikes you, but that term seems to me to nicely sum up biblical Christian living as a “missional” believer. This isn’t necessarily the line of thinking that sells the most books, but it captures, I think, both the Christocentric idealism and the conscionable realism of the biblical authors. I want to look into this below (and would commend Hunter’s To Change the World, which has stimulated my thinking). This will be a bit lengthy–I’m warning you up front. Adjust your goggles; set phasers to stun.
There is a need for this kind of thinking and communication in our day among young people. Twentysomethings are notoriously and historically idealistic, of course. This isn’t new to our day. But it’s interesting to survey the culture at present. Idealism–even an unnuanced idealism–is alive and well. This despite a twentieth century marked by devastating wars, political corruption, the overturning of …
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