Comments on: 2 for 1. Free book and a Fun Interview. http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/interview/2-for-1-free-book-and-a-fun-interview/ Igniting Souls Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kary Oberbrunner http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/interview/2-for-1-free-book-and-a-fun-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-25523 Kary Oberbrunner Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:45:08 +0000 http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/?p=2204#comment-25523 Stop by the classroom I am in. Let's set something up...at least a chat. Maybe disc :) I hear great things about what God is doing in you. Stop by the classroom I am in. Let’s set something up…at least a chat. Maybe disc :) I hear great things about what God is doing in you.

]]> By: Kary Oberbrunner http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/interview/2-for-1-free-book-and-a-fun-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-25522 Kary Oberbrunner Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:44:26 +0000 http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/?p=2204#comment-25522 Thanks Matthew. If you can read the book and then let me know if you still have those thoughts. Thanks for weighing in. Thanks Matthew. If you can read the book and then let me know if you still have those thoughts. Thanks for weighing in.

]]> By: Tim Sprankle http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/interview/2-for-1-free-book-and-a-fun-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-25518 Tim Sprankle Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:47:29 +0000 http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/?p=2204#comment-25518 Rhett sent me a copy of your book. Thanks. I love the analogy of living 'between two Michaels' (Stipe and Smith) in the first chapter. Coincidentally, the first CD purchased in my family's house was REM's Out of Time. Profound album. Any chance we can gather some folks to play Frisbee golf at Equip09? Rhett sent me a copy of your book. Thanks. I love the analogy of living ‘between two Michaels’ (Stipe and Smith) in the first chapter. Coincidentally, the first CD purchased in my family’s house was REM’s Out of Time. Profound album. Any chance we can gather some folks to play Frisbee golf at Equip09?

]]> By: Matthew Eby http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/interview/2-for-1-free-book-and-a-fun-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-25517 Matthew Eby Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:11:35 +0000 http://www.karyoberbrunner.com/?p=2204#comment-25517 I have not yet read _The Fine Line_ (perhaps I will if I win a copy ;), but I wonder how much 1 Cor 7:29-31 (for instance) limits the extent to which Christians indulge themselves even in the so-called "good" things of culture--even things that are gifts from God (including the arts). It seems to me that the earliest Christians were too busy suffering persecution for their faith to develop their artistic side and be "relevant" to their surrounding culture. First-century believers were not any more "leading the way in the exploration of the arts" than we are today, and yet many were strangely drawn to this new faith. (Come to think of it, I'm not sure that Jesus himself led the way in the exploration of the arts. And if his church had done so, I wonder whether they would ever have been persecuted as he was.) Thinking further along these lines, might it be that a "separatist" and "transformist" taxonomy is falsely disjunctive? Could it be that Christians transform *by* separating? I have not yet read _The Fine Line_ (perhaps I will if I win a copy ;) , but I wonder how much 1 Cor 7:29-31 (for instance) limits the extent to which Christians indulge themselves even in the so-called “good” things of culture–even things that are gifts from God (including the arts). It seems to me that the earliest Christians were too busy suffering persecution for their faith to develop their artistic side and be “relevant” to their surrounding culture. First-century believers were not any more “leading the way in the exploration of the arts” than we are today, and yet many were strangely drawn to this new faith. (Come to think of it, I’m not sure that Jesus himself led the way in the exploration of the arts. And if his church had done so, I wonder whether they would ever have been persecuted as he was.)

Thinking further along these lines, might it be that a “separatist” and “transformist” taxonomy is falsely disjunctive? Could it be that Christians transform *by* separating?

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