The Good News Jesus came to share, according to John Piper, popular author and speaker. Piper shares a wholistic Gospel that is hopeful and at the same time challenges our stifling individualism, materialism, and shallowness. Provided on Google Video by Desiring God [http://desiringgod.org].
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.
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Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.