Mar 30, 2010 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Chapter Four Transcending Culture I have attempted to show that kingdom culture is a spiritual culture revealed by God. This culture comes out of his character, which is unchanging. The spiritual culture of the kingdom is unchanging as...
Mar 24, 2010 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Chapter Three Divided Loyalties The Church has been facing a crisis for some time now, a crisis surrounding the question of relevance. Its critics claim that the Church and the Gospel have ceased being relevant and meaningful. Many have sought to answer...
Mar 14, 2010 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Chapter 2A Spiritual Culture?Christians face an added complexity in considering culture and paradigms. This complexity is summed up nicely in the well known axiom “In the world but not of the world.” What does that mean exactly? This...
Nov 13, 2008 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Part One What’s the Point? The Eye of the Storm… I shudder as I begin writing this and nearly get up from the keyboard and run away. A crisis of identity has recently turned my inward life upside down, and the blame can be squarely put on the shoulders of my...
Jul 16, 2008 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
When I saw the figure he was jumping the lineand hopping over trenches,rolling up razor wire,and, of all things, laughing. Wide eyed, I began to wonderIs it possible that the war is over?His eyes found me thenhe smiledhe grinned,then turned to the far flungwandering...
Jul 14, 2008 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
As I approached the door I scanned the amount of vehicles parked outside the house, which told me there were a lot of people inside. I rang the door bell could hear laughter and voices in conversation, all the sounds you would expect to hear from an ongoing...