Robert Weber in his book Ancient-Future Faith asserts that future wars are likely to be cultural wars as opposed to wars between civilizations. He points to the rise of Muslims around the world as an example (keep in mind that he wrote this in 1999!) He states, “Muslims will always be Muslims before they will be Americans or members of any other culture of civilization.”

David Fairchild (pastor at Kaleo in San Diego & Acts 29 leader) wrote the following post entitled “Transformissional Church.”
http://www.pastorfairchild.com/2007-06/23/a-transformissional-church/

This is great stuff that is very relevant to the DNA of Sojourn Church. Don’t miss the full post. Here are some excerpts:

*In relation to God’s Word, Kaleo seeks to be a Gospel-centered church.

The following is a long, but important read from The Gospel and our Culture Network. This article greatly challenged me a few years ago. I will reproduce it in its entirety. You can go to www.gocn.org for more information.

- David

Empirical Indicators of a Missional Church

A Working Document of the “Developing Congregational Models” Team
The Transforming Congregations Toward Mission Project

Tim Keller has an exceptional article on how to preach the gospel in a post-modern city (not just to post-moderns, but to everyone!).

’ “the gospel” is not just a way to be saved from the penalty of sin, but is the fundamental dynamic for living the whole Christian life–individually and corporately, privately and publicly. In other words, the gospel is not just for non-Christians, but also for Christians. This means the gospel is not just the A-B-C’s but the A to Z of the Christian life. It is not accurate to think ’the gospel’ is what saves non-Christians, and then, what matures Christians is trying hard to live according to Biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our mind, heart, and life by believing the gospel more and more deeply as our life goes on.’ (emphasis added)

Bob Hyatt has written a powerful, eye-opening account of his escape from a consumer church. It is so good, I’ve reproduced it in entirety below.

“In many ways, what we were doing began to make less and less sense. I saw it connecting with fewer and fewer people who were raised outside of church, and I noticed a huge group of people who left church after high school and never seemed to come back …