Post-Rapture Radio: Lost Writings from the Failed Revolution at the End of the Last Century

by Russell Rathbun

• ISBN13: 9780787973933
• ISBN10: 0787973939
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

In Post-Rapture Radio, our faithful narrator finds a mysterious box containing the sermons and journal entries of a genuine, unvarnished American character the Reverend Richard Lamblove. The little-known Lamblove-tried and failed-to revolutionize contemporary Christian culture. As his journal entries, cereal box scribblings, and random notes written on paper scraps reveal, Lamblove sees contemporary culture as shallow, overly individualistic, and consumed with the kind of status measured by money, power, and celebrity. And American Evangelicalism-which has been integrated into the culture as a whole-has similar failings. Reverend Lamblove vanished without a trace, but Russell Rathbun has "compiled" his papers into a compelling critique of contemporary faith an antidote to faith-as-usual and a wakeup call for Christians to genuinely respond to the gospel.

Table of Contents

Prelude to the Apocalypse	xi
part one: The Apocalypse	1	(40)
From Lamblove's Commentary on the Book of Revelation: Terms Related to the End of the World	5	(4)
Letter to the Seven County Metro Area Association of Emerging Churches (SCMAAEC)	9	(2)
Journal Entry (Mrs. Cheryl Johnson)	11	(2)
Sermon: Confessions of a Post-Evangelical, or Jesus in a Suitcase	13	(6)
Journal Eentry (The Spiritual Act of Shopping)	19	(6)
Editor's Comment	25	(2)
Journal Entry (I Don't Know About Technology)	27	(4)
Post-Apocalyptic Praise Song, Part One	31	(10)
Part Two: Judgment and Armageddon	41	(76)
From Lamblove's Commentary on the Book of Revelation: Nothing but the Blood of Jesus	43	(2)
Sermon: A Good Televangelist Is Hard to Find	45	(6)
Journal Entry (Address to the Maple Lakes Rotary Club)	51	(12)
Sermon: Football Coach Jesus	63	(10)
Journal Cntry (The Parking Lot Is a Dangerous Place)	73	(6)
Sermon: Penlight Jesus	79	(10)
Journal Entry (Amy Knows Ssomething)	89	(4)
Journal Entry (Generation Jesus)	93	(2)
Sermon: Preacher and a Drunk	95	(8)
Post-Apocalyptic Praise Song, Part Two	103	(10)
Journal Entry (A Top Priority for Your Wednesday)	113	(4)
Part Three: A New Heaven and a New Earth	117	(60)
From Lamblove's Commentary on the Book of Revelation: Consuming the Future for Short-Term Existential Gain	119	(4)
Journal Entry (What Does It Matter?)	123	(4)
Sermon: Why is Evil Funny?	127	(6)
Sermon: Separation in Light of Personal Experience	133	(8)
Journal Entry (Mercy Machine)	141	(8)
Editor's Comment	149	(2)
Journal Entry (The Lord's Supper as a Revolutionary Act)	151	(2)
Sermon: The Uncontrollable Love of God	153	(4)
Post-Apocalyptic Praise Song, Part Three	157	(8)
Journal Entry (I Used to Be So Sure)	165	(2)
Editor's Comment	167	(2)
Journal Entry or Note or Something	169	(2)
Final Undated Journal Entry (These Are the People I Love)	171	(2)
From an Article Published in the St. Paul Tribune, November 25, 2000	173	(2)
Epilogue	175	(2)
Acknowledgments	177	(2)
The Author	179