Book Review: The Saviour Sensitive Church – By Paul Chappell & John Goetsch

Anybody who's paid attention to the happenings in the Christian church throughout the past few decades cannot help but notice the advent the megachurch, what are often popularly termed "seeker-sensitive" churches. As one might guess by the title, The Saviour Sensitive Church is an attempt at rebuffing what its authors see as a detrimental mindset … Continue reading Book Review: The Saviour Sensitive Church – By Paul Chappell & John Goetsch

Book Review: Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? – By James K. A. Smith

Postmodernism is an idea that is [intentionally] ill-defined and poorly understood, both by those who call themselves postmoderns and by those who attack them. One of the groups which has set its sights on postmodernism in recent years is the Christian church, which has had no shortage of condemnations for it. Granted, we may also … Continue reading Book Review: Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? – By James K. A. Smith

Book Review: The Fall of Interpretation – By James K. A. Smith

While there has been much scholarship written in the realm of hermeneutics, these discussions on the whole tend to limit themselves on how to go about hermeneutics; they generally confine themselves to discussing how to apply interpretational models, rather than looking at interpretation itself. Furthermore, those scholars who have taken up the task of addressing … Continue reading Book Review: The Fall of Interpretation – By James K. A. Smith

Book Review: How Jesus Runs the Church – Guy Prentiss Waters

Church government is an important part of the way Christ rules his people, a crucial part of Christian discipline, uniquely tasked for world missions, and is "a way to give concrete and visible expression to the present reign of our risen and exalted Mediator, Jesus Christ" (xxiv). Naturally, it is important to know the form … Continue reading Book Review: How Jesus Runs the Church – Guy Prentiss Waters