Apologetics has NOT Left the Building

Interesting thoughts about the theological field of apologetics (explaining & defending the faith) from Dan Kimball of Vintage Faith, in an entry entitled "Re-inventing Jesus. Here's a few excerpts:

(guest speaker) "Dr. Sawyer primarily focused on the canonicty of the New Testament (a word which he explained). We set it up where I asked some questions and he would dialog and teach about it. It kind of felt like a church history class. He covered how the New Testament was compiled, addressed the various Gnostic gospels and how to look at them etc. We then had a time of open Q and A about anything about the formation of the Bible..."

"Here's what I witnessed. That going into theology at this level and going into "reasons" of why Christians believe what they do - is very much needed and not only needed, but seeing the response of people at our church, very much desired."

"As a church, we have a general vision sort of a statement that says: We are asking God to transform us into a ... worshiping - community - of- missional - theologians". We put the word theologian in there, as we want to create a culture in our church where discussing and learning theology will become a norm for us. We have a long way to go on this, but I hope we continue to think and pray how to make this a reality."

"Creating a culture where discussing and learning theology will be a norm..." Wow. I like the sound of that. I hope Dan keeps blogging about how that part of their journey plays out.