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By Bill Hybels Pastor Raushenbush was right in predicting that he and I would feel essentially the same way on the Sandwich/Jesus issue. Stretching the metaphor a bit, I would add that the acid test for whether a person has indeed eaten the “Jesus” sandwich is whether or not he or she is then motivated…

By Paul Raushenbush “Anyone can give a hungry person a sandwich. We have to give them Jesus.” This statement by a conservative evangelical got me thinking of this online conversation with Rev. Hybels as the “Jesus vs. Sandwich” debate. I shouldn’t speak for Rev. Hybels, but my guess is that this simple dichotomy won’t work…

The Rev. Paul B. Raushenbush is the Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University and former editor at Beliefnet. He recently edited the 100th anniversary edition of Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century, written by his great-grandfather Walter Rauschenbusch. Rauschenbusch was a major proponent of the social gospel,…

Bill Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of the 20,000-member Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill. He is the best-selling author of more than twenty books, including Holy Discontent, The Volunteer Revolution, and Becoming a Contagious Christian.
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