http://mattjudkins.com/2009/07/21/book-review-a-lovers-quarrel-with-the-evangelical-church/ life and faith in okc Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mattjudkins.com/2009/07/21/book-review-a-lovers-quarrel-with-the-evangelical-church/#comment-1190 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:28:44 +0000 http://mattjudkins.com/?p=884#comment-1190 Thanks for reading it so I don’t have to.

]]> http://mattjudkins.com/2009/07/21/book-review-a-lovers-quarrel-with-the-evangelical-church/#comment-1189 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:43:46 +0000 http://mattjudkins.com/?p=884#comment-1189 I think it is very interesting listening to ill-informed people speak on the church. Unless someone is an insider, they are not going to get the nuances.
A few examples: Listening to NPR one day, the religion editor, Barbara Hagerty, kept using the terms “seeker-sensitive” and “mega-church” interchangeably. I’m thinking to myself how I work in a mega-church, but can’t begin to describe my setting as seeker-sensitive. To some, this phrase simply means inclusion of technology, not method of communication and style of church programming.
A few years ago, the movie “Jesus Camp” painted all evangelicals as fundamentalists and continually used the terms interchangeable. To anyone who is in these circles these are clearly not synonymous terms, which you made clear at the beginning of your post.
One last example, is the way some use the term Pentecostal and charismatic. These are theological systems that are not one and the same.
Perhaps, it is because theology trains us to think in the world of words that these semantics bother me so much, or maybe I’m so bothered because it is the habit of our world to label, stereotype, polarize, and ultimately divide us from one another.

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