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So far David Fitch, in his provocative book, The Great Giveaway, has taken on the pillars of evangelical church life: success, evangelism, leadership, experience, and preaching. He will also address spiritual formation and moral education. But, I’m particularly happy he has devoted a chapter to “justice” because most evangelical books about the Church simply don’t…

Some of you may know that I wrote an introduction to a reader’s digest and friendly version of the four Gospels called The Story of the Christ. How would a 1st Century Roman reporter have described Jesus? The book could be useful for a college-age Bible study where students want to look at Jesus in…

David Fitch’s The Great Giveaway turns in chp 5 to the “Preaching of the Word” and he sub-titles his chp “the myth of expository preaching.” What do you see as the primary function of preaching? To be an exposition of the biblical text itself in a verse-by-verse fashion (or close to that) so that each…

Chapter four of David Fitch’s The Great Giveaway takes on a troubled and troubling dimension of corporate worship: the production of experience. Because of Fitch’s personal study of the history of liturgy and worship, and because of his experimentation and practical knowledge of the liturgical ideas stemming from Robert Webber’s works, this chapter is for…
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