Comments on: Salvation for Me and Me Alone http://pilgrimguide.com/2009/10/01/salvation-for-me-and-me-alone/ Missional Exploration: Joining God in the Neighborhoods of Life Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:54:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob Robinson http://pilgrimguide.com/2009/10/01/salvation-for-me-and-me-alone/#comment-346 Rob Robinson Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:50:35 +0000 http://pilgrimguide.wordpress.com/?p=864#comment-346 I think your right on individuality not being just and Evangelical thing, and I think the author would agree as well. His focus is on the Evangelicals because he is Evangelical describing the many (i.e., consumerism, materialism, racism, etc.,) changes necessary for the cultural contextualization of the gospel. As something of an Evangelical myself, I find this book both fascinating and profound. I think your right on individuality not being just and Evangelical thing, and I think the author would agree as well. His focus is on the Evangelicals because he is Evangelical describing the many (i.e., consumerism, materialism, racism, etc.,) changes necessary for the cultural contextualization of the gospel. As something of an Evangelical myself, I find this book both fascinating and profound.

]]> By: Alan Wilkerson http://pilgrimguide.com/2009/10/01/salvation-for-me-and-me-alone/#comment-345 Alan Wilkerson Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:26:17 +0000 http://pilgrimguide.wordpress.com/?p=864#comment-345 Doesn't the Evangelical reflection of this individuality really back to the founding of our nation where we can practice "our" religion away from those "other guys"? I seem to recall Rhode Island as the only accepting colony in the US for a while. A theology of community also flies in the face of the U.S. history that has established a "right to privacy". IMHO I don't think it's an Evangelical thing at all. I know too may progressives/liberals who are just as self focused as the conservatives. They just make the opposite mistake and make everything a corporate expression of sin with no personal responsibility except to drive hybrids and the like. Michael Moore a the poster child for this movement. Peace, Alan Doesn’t the Evangelical reflection of this individuality really back to the founding of our nation where we can practice “our” religion away from those “other guys”? I seem to recall Rhode Island as the only accepting colony in the US for a while.

A theology of community also flies in the face of the U.S. history that has established a “right to privacy”. IMHO I don’t think it’s an Evangelical thing at all. I know too may progressives/liberals who are just as self focused as the conservatives. They just make the opposite mistake and make everything a corporate expression of sin with no personal responsibility except to drive hybrids and the like. Michael Moore a the poster child for this movement.

Peace,
Alan

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