McLaren Explains
16th April 2005
SmartChristian, referring to Brian McLaren’s recent interview asks if McLaren has clarified sufficiently his now infamous quote.
In A Generous Orthodoxy, McLaren writes that he doubts "making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion" and that "[i]t may be advisable in many (not all!) circumstances to help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu or Jewish contexts."
Steve McCoy at Reformissionary explores the clarification further. As McCoy points out, this quote has caught the ire of major Christian thinkers and is also the key reason cited by the organizers of the Kentucky Baptist Convention to pull their invitation to McLaren to address the convention.
Maybe it is because I am an Asian Christian. Or perhaps, I have strong Buddhist and Taoist roots. Or Read the rest of this entry »
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