Eric Sandras
Autor(a) de Buck-Naked Faith: A Brutally Honest Look at Stunted Christianity
About the Author
Eric Sandras, Ph. D., is pastor of the Olympic Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Port Angeles, Washington. A founder of Vineyard's Emerging Leaders Initiative, he also frequently speaks across denominational lines at various seminars and gatherings. Eric and his wife, Cindy, live in Washington State mostrar mais with their two children mostrar menos
Obras de Eric Sandras
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An analysis of the substance of what passes for modern Christianity through the metaphor of "spiritual suburbia," a place full of pretense and exterior beauty yet filled with internal division and decrepitude. As with the suburbs, so with people's faith.
The author expands the metaphor to relate to many aspects of suburbia-- keeping up with the Joneses as the false form of identity, career as calling, television as the great divider and tranquilizer, the SUV in terms of knowledge of God, the big house in terms of conversation with God, and the lawn as pretense vs. brokenness. With each metaphor the author exposes the hollowness of faith that is easy to settle for and explores deeper, more authentic discipleship.
The author is Evangelical and is traversing fairly common ground for the genre type among modern Evangelical authors. Some of his metaphors and similes are beyond disturbing. Nevertheless, much of the ground is worth exploring again, and the author provides many declarations of value:
-The failure of our unaided attempts at self-rehabilitation and our need to surrender to the Lord and be empowered with His strength.
-How often do we make decisions as walking away from something as opposed to walking toward something?
...and so on and so forth.
Another one of those books that will make you uncomfortable but should be read anyway.… (mais)
The author expands the metaphor to relate to many aspects of suburbia-- keeping up with the Joneses as the false form of identity, career as calling, television as the great divider and tranquilizer, the SUV in terms of knowledge of God, the big house in terms of conversation with God, and the lawn as pretense vs. brokenness. With each metaphor the author exposes the hollowness of faith that is easy to settle for and explores deeper, more authentic discipleship.
The author is Evangelical and is traversing fairly common ground for the genre type among modern Evangelical authors. Some of his metaphors and similes are beyond disturbing. Nevertheless, much of the ground is worth exploring again, and the author provides many declarations of value:
-The failure of our unaided attempts at self-rehabilitation and our need to surrender to the Lord and be empowered with His strength.
-How often do we make decisions as walking away from something as opposed to walking toward something?
...and so on and so forth.
Another one of those books that will make you uncomfortable but should be read anyway.… (mais)
Written by my friend Eric Sandras, this approachable book on authentic discipleship takes the model of the bonsai tree as the antithesis of our goals as Christians. It's a great illustration (anti-illustration?)
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The author takes the basic principles used in creating bonsai and presents their opposites as principles for creating a "butt-kicking, life-giving friendship with Jesus."
The book is pretty brutal in it's honesty. Sandras lays bare his own history, the kinds of things the typical Christian would go to great pains to hide. One of the reasons I'd recommend this book to others is the author's transparency.… (mais)