These believers range from evangelicals to mainline Protestants to Catholics, and the person who best represents them is author and pastor Brian McLaren. Not since the Reformation five centuries ago have so many Christians come together to ask whether the church is in sync with their deepest beliefs and commitments. We are in the midst of a paradigm shift in the church. In you, your family, your faith community, and circles of friends, among people of peace and faith everywhere, something is trying to be born." -from A New Kind of Christianity You may know it as hope, hope that God is seeking humble people whose hearts and lives can be the womb of a better future. You may experience it as frustration, knowing that there must be more to faith than you currently know. You may feel it as a curiosity, a desire for better answers than you inherited so far. Even now, right here, among us, inside you, inside me. But even there, something is trying to be born. "Wherever the willingness to rethink has been squelched, wherever that sense of quest has been buried under convention and complacency, the Christian faith in all its forms is in trouble.
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