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A Christianity Worth Believing
By: Doug PagitteBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Jossey-Bass
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A Christianity Worth Believing offers an engaging, 'come-with-me-on-a-journey-of-exploring-the-possibilities' approach to what it means to be a follower of Jesus in our day. Written by Doug Pagitt?a leading voice in the Emergent conversation—this beautifully written book weaves together theological reflections, Christian history, and his own story of faith transformation.
Pagitt invites readers to follow him as he tells the story of his un-churched childhood, his life-altering conversion at age 16, his intense involvement in the church, and his growing sense of unease with the version of Christianity he was living. On page after page, Pagitt lays out his journey toward an authentic, passionate expression of a faith that feels alive, sustainable, and meaningful.
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| Title of Religion eBook: A Christianity Worth Believing | |
| Release Date: 02-07-2012 | |
| Publisher: Jossey-Bass |
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| Parent title | A Christianity Worth Believing |
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| SKU | 9780470287958 |
| File size | 8709 |
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A Christianity Worth Believing
Chapter One
CONFESSIONS OF AN ADOPTED SON
I am a Christian-a theologically trained, church-planting, evangelizing, Jesus-loving Christian. I trust in resurrection, and I seek to join with God in the world. But I have problem, an internal conflict that has only gotten worse in my twenty years of following this faith. It's the kind of problem I tell others about with great caution and no small amount of anxiety.
I am a Christian, but I don't believe in Christianity.
At least I don't believe in the versions of Christianity that have prevailed for the last fifteen hundred years, the ones that were perfectly suitable in their time and place but have little connection with this time and place. The ones that answer questions we no longer ask and fail to consider questions we can no longer ignore. The ones that don't mesh with what we know about God and the world and our place in it. I want to be very clear: I am not conflicted because I struggle to believe. I am conflicted because I want to believe differently.
I don't like feeling at odds with the faith I hold so deeply. But I've come to believe these sorts of struggles are part of being adopted into a family that's been around for generations. And I know firsthand just how fraught with conflict the adoption process can be.
Seven years ago, my wife, Shelley, and I adopted our sons, Ruben and Chico. They joined our biological children, Michon and Taylor, to make us a family of six. We quickly realized that the addition of these two did not just make us a third larger and a third Hispanic; it made us a new family. All six of us have hurt and
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