Historia ecclesiastica: WHY LAUGHTER IS AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO BARNA & HIS ECCLESIOLOGICAL PROPOSAL

I don't know Michael Haykin - but I have a class under him in two weeks - I really look forward to meeting him. The reading list he gave us for the class is great - and this blog entry is pretty funny:

A short exerpt:

There will be some, I am sure, picturing themselves as brave souls going where few in our day have gone before—and so experiencing the adventure of the Christian life in all of its white-water intensity—who take up Barna’s suggestions and try to do Christianity without Church. In so doing, they will be sculpting their Christianity into the shape of our culture or sitting down to supper with the devil with a short spoon—either metaphor is frightening—and abandoning one of the key verities of the Faith.

There is no "churchless Christianity" this is a great myth of our times...

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