Impact of "A New Kind of Christian" on Me

Jimmy Adcox, minister of the Southwest Church of Christ in Jonesboro, AR asked me what impacted me most about Brian McLaren's A New Kind of Christian. I responded on Facebook with this message and am reproducing it here.

You asked what impacted me most. It is difficult for me to explain. It pointed me to a new view of things where I could hope to reconcile Christianity and Science. This had been a dilemma for me all my adult life and an obstacle to faith and confidence. It set me on a new path to explore and showed me the importance of Story. It shed light on earlier things I'd read by CofC scholars about the role of the Enlightenment in forming Alex Campbell and our particular heritage. As I write this I want to say it gave me better reasons for things, and it did. But, though reasoning is important and plays a critical role, it has its limitations. In addition to that, it also gave me a coherent story of how we arrived at this point and where we are now and a basis for Hope that I can believe in.