The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian

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The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move—outgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of life.
 
It’s time to move again.
 
Brian McLaren, a leading voice in contemporary religion, argues that— notwithstanding the dire headlines about the demise of faith and drop in church attendance—Christian faith is not dying. Rather, it is embarking on a once-in-an-era spiritual shift. For millions, the journey has already begun. 
 
Drawing from his work as global activist, pastor, and public theologian, McLaren challenges readers to stop worrying, waiting, and indulging in nostalgia, and instead, to embrace the powerful new understandings that are reshaping the church. In The Great Spiritual Migration, he explores three profound shifts that define the change:
 
 Spiritually, growing numbers of Christians are moving away from defining themselves by lists of beliefs and toward a way of life defined by love
 Theologically, believers are increasingly rejecting the image of God as a violent Supreme Being and embracing the image of God as the renewing Spirit at work in our world for the common good
 Missionally, the faithful are identifying less with organized religion and more with organizing religion—spiritual activists dedicated to healing the planet, building peace, overcoming poverty and injustice, and collaborating with other faiths to ensure a better future for all of us
 
With his trademark brilliance and compassion, McLaren invites readers to seize the moment and set out on the most significant spiritual pilgrimage of our time: to help Christianity become more Christian.

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David Stewart
April 14, 2018
Unfortunately, McLaren makes useful piints ans critiques, but the more I read him, the more he demostrates that he isn't merely calling particularly the Western Church to return to some of the ancient practices, which demostrated the strength of the church from the fall of Rome up until the modern era as Rod Dreher does. Tragically (and to the great spiritual harm of many), he is preaching a Christianity that is not historic, orthodox Christianity in the least, and more and more is nothing but down right paganism. McLaren is not more than a simple, plain old-fashioned heretic. While criticisms of how people may decide, oh, we shouldn't worry about that, because the world is going to hell in a hand basket, should be listened to. Rewriting millennia of established doctrine, simply because it is not societally acceptable or creates a tension within a person that a person may not like, demostrates that McLaren has never truly understood the faith, and even worse, is a wolf in sheep's clothing and among the false teachers, which Scrpture warns against, and should be treated accordlyingly.
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Brian D. McLaren is a Christian thinker, author, and activist. A former pastor with a background in literature, McLaren is the author of over a dozen books, an Auburn Senior Fellow, and board chair of Convergence (convergenceus.org).

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