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I promised several months ago to do a review for Spencer Bruce's book "Heretic's Guide to Eternity". Although I read the book back in the fall, I never got around to posting the review (I never really got to posting anything! Sorry for the delay on this Spencer). Spencer is the creator of The Ooze and I was honored to get a copy of the book to review as well as looking forward to reading it.

I really did not like the book. I thought it was written somewhat sloppily and dropped statements more for effect and reaction then for true scholarly debate. I was frustrated that is seemed to be written to criticize some of the more traditional / popular branches of Christianity then to say something fresh and relevant.

I agree that following Christ is supposed to be radical, and that at times the Church gets too caught up in keeping tradition then in keeping up with Jesus. But I disagree with what appeared to be Spencer's desire to make the path to Christ so wide that belief does not matter. I thought his original proposition of "Opting-Out" instead of the Church's traditional approach of "Opting-In" was interesting, I just thought his development of that thought was sloppy, unconvincing, and disappointing.

I feel that Scot McKnight had the best review of the book. You can see his reviews here, here, here and here.

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of the person you love who always wanted to be a monorail driver....priceless.

I know, long time no post. I will post some updates later....but for now, a thought. Cindy and I have been talking about "third spaces" for years (although we never really called it). Take a look at Jordon's post as well as the link on his post.

Here is the question. We spent some time this fall looking at the building next door to open as a coffee shop, but we had no money. What if we just opened the church up during the week. What if we made it a third space, serve good coffee, open it up during the day or in the evening. We have wi-fi running through the building already. What if we pumped in some music, brought in some couches an tables, and opened the church up through-out the week. I know we would need to change some stuff and secure some stuff, and have more people "working" at the church, but we could be a place for people to come, hang out, and look into things that are more "spiritual". I think that we would see some fruit from this...plus we could begin to be salt to our community, a safe place to go and hang out.

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