Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast – How much money, time and energy is consumed by the sundry events Christians put on each year? From passing out evangelistic pamphlets to putting on massive shows, the church seems to spend a disproportionate amount of its resources creating events to attract people. Mike and Mark discuss this, and wonder how many relationships are in our daily lives that we ignore because we’re too busy. Are we missing the fields right in front of us? Do these artificial events work?
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This podcast makes me reminisce over the times that I have missed “divine appointments” at the shopping mall – i.e. those people now frying in hell because I had to take a couple of minutes out to go take a dump.
Speaking of hot sauce, I recently read an insightful book (although not an easy read) entitled “Her Gates Will Never Be Shut, Hope, Hell and the New Jerusalem” by Bradley Jersak; ISBN 13: 978-1-60608-822-1. (It has an endorsement from Eugene Peterson.)
By the way, thanks always for the podcast,
Jim D
“Speaking of Hot Sauce” LOL! Thanks Jim! I haven’t read the book so this is not an endorsement but discovered the authors are Canadians from BC. I found their website and a description of the book here: http://www.bradjersak.com/hergatesfeature.html .
Like I said, I haven’t read it, but may have to add it to my summer reading pile! Has anyone read the book? Can you give us a quick jist of it?
Hi Mike:
Brad is based in Abbotsford and is known for a unique way of doing church. A brief overview of his book includes the meanings of the original Hewbrew and Greek words translated as hell in the bible, a historical summary of how we arrived at our current wack concepts of hell and a proposal of what hell might actually be, based on the “strange” concept that God is love. It’s a bit of a read because there are lots of Old and New Testament references along with a lot of historical citations, but it does make one think especially regarding the book of Revelation.
I was attracted to the book because (i) a lot of Christians have been/are manipulated by the fear of going to hell and, (ii) many use the concept for saving new converts (i.e. sinners prayer approach to trolling for newbies).
I especially liked the book because of the historical tracing of the concept down through the history of the IC. I also liked the book because I’m wierd, you know like that old anthem says “I’m on the highway to hell…”.
Jim
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