Mike Erre
Auteur van The Jesus of Suburbia: Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle?
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Mike Erre is senior pastor of First Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton, California He has previously served at both Mariners Church and Rock Harbor Church in Orange County. A graduate of Talbot School of Theology, Mike speaks at universities conferences around the country. This is his fifth book.
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- 5
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- #76,934
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It’s a book that made me stop and think, which gave me encouragement that post-modern openness and questioning is acceptable even in some evangelical circles; that there’s much more to faith and God than many would have us believe. I found the brief anecdotes and forays into the author's life experiences to be interesting; I was particularly moved by brief mentions of his son, born with Down Syndrome, and evidently one of the lights of his life.
A lot of the underlying - albeit gentle - criticism in this book is against the materialist and rigidly modernist views held in some American mega-churches. We UK Christians usually have a lot more grey areas, where views like those of the author are discussed, and accepted, so these parts weren't so relevant to me.
The subtitle of ‘Astonished’ is: ‘Recapturing the wonder, awe and mystery of life with God’. While that’s a tall order, I would say that this book could help people on their way to doing exactly that, so long as they’re prepared to be open to the possibility that they might be wrong in some of their understanding about the nature of God and what it means to follow Jesus.
Recommended.… (meer)