I would strongly encourage everyone to listen to this week's CBH Viewpoint broadcast. Jim Lyon begins a series(?) featuring Dan Allender, President of Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle. Allender's book How Children Raise Their Parents provides the launching pad for their discussion. But this is not just about parenting. Allender makes the point that as parents we learn from our children, and that this can lead to our own spiritual maturity. This episode's discussion brings up the matter of postmodernism, and how listening to our children can help us better know God, as well as our shifting culture.
The issues conveyed here have tremendous implications for the church, even beyond just parenting. I'm impressed that Jim Lyon is tackling this in a context and format that can have broad impact across the church.
Viewpoint is a tremendous production, and certainly one of the best Christian radio shows anywhere, period. It's a Church of God gem.
Viewpoint radio broadcasts can be heard online. While true podcasting is yet to come, there is an RSS/XML feed leading to the download and streaming page.
2 comments:
nice. I'm also glad that Jim Lyon is tackling this. I was wondering when he would come across this type discussion. I went to North Anderson when I was in college, by in large becuase of Jim's teaching. It was always culturally timely. Thanks Jim and to you Lloyd for bringing our attention to it. Ra! Ra!
Myself and a freind just lead a great discussion at the ChOG in MI Youthworkers. It reminded me how important it is still to talk about how culture is changing and we've go to adapt so we can still be "in the [same] world" as the people we're trying to minister.
thanks lloyd for the information and link
i like Randy also attended North because of Jim's teaching and influence while at college
speaking of cultural relevance, we're getting some things together to launch a myspace site that would continue the discussions from our Sunday night service (i know, myspace probably means we're on our way to hell), anyway...
we've simply reserved the names and sites while we get ready to change the visual formatting and experiment with adding the audio files from the services.
a lady in our area, by my estimation a single mom of two teen boys, stumbled onto our site. she's not in church, used to be, but lost touch, or it lost touch with her. she's been e-mailing through the site intrigued by the initial information and stirred to find out more. i think she's even planning to come this weekend
all because of stepping into myspace--maybe that's a postmodern samaria we got to learn to go through, rather than around
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