Tom and Christine Sine are visiting Australia next month for personal
reasons, but are available for some teaching/preaching engagements. They
will be in Melbourne in mid-April. Tom is about to publish a new book:
The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time
Tom Sine. InterVarsity, $15 paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8308-3384-9
Organized as a series of conversations, this book explores the "lively
edge"
of Christianity in the U.S. and the U.K. Sine, who wrote The Mustard Seed
Conspiracy in the early 1980s, has always championed Christian subversives
and exiles who act in small but significant ways to care for the poor and
marginalized. This book begins by delineating four streams of Christian
expression that greatly challenge the norms and assumptions of traditional
churches. These streams-emerging, missional, mosaic and
monastic-frequently
flow into one another, and Sine does a fine job of defining them as
separate
but interdependent entities. Sine looks to these streams for tentative
answers to several difficult questions, such as "Did we get what it
means to
be a disciple wrong?" and "Did we get what it means to be the church
wrong?"
As he explores these questions, Sine considers the context, particularly
what he calls "the global mall," in which the church must define and
distinguish itself. Sine is unflinching in his *****sment of Christian
consumerism, but his tone is never angry. Rather, he exudes childlike
enthusiasm as he shares example after example of Christians all over the
world who are expressing their faith through profoundly countercultural
acts
of mercy, justice, love and compassion. (Mar.)
- Publisher Weeky review of the New Conspirators
which you can preview at http://thenewconspirators.com/.
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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/
(20,000 articles 4000 humor)
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