Why We Love the Church In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion

by DeYoung, Kevin L.; Kluck, Ted A.

• ISBN13: 9780802458377
• ISBN10: 0802458378
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Moody Publishers

Summary

Why We Love the Churchpresents the case for loving the local church. It paints a picture of the local church in all its biblical and real life guts, gaffes, and glory in an effort to edify local congregations and entice the disaffected back to the fold. It also provides a solid biblical mandate to love and be part of the body of Christ and counteract the "leave church" books that trumpet rebellion and individual felt needs. Why We Love the Churchis written for four kinds of people - the Committed, the Disgruntled, the Waffling & the Disconnected.

Author Biography

Ted Kluck's work has appeared in ESPN the Magazine, Sports Spectrum Magazine, ESPN.com Page2, and several small literary journals. A bi-monthly column for Sports Spectrum Magazine entitled "Pro and Con" won the Evangelical Press Association award for best standing column in 2003. Additionally, Ted has written two WGA registered screenplays and an award-winning (Damah Film Festival, Sabaoth Film Festival) short film. Ted co-authored Why We're Not Emergent with Kevin DeYoung. He lives in Lansing, Michigan with his wife Kristen, and son, Tristan.

Kevin DeYoung is Senior Pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan, across the street from Michigan State University.  A graduate of Hope College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, he serves on the executive team of RCA Integrity, a renewal group within the Reformed Church of America.  DeYoung in the author of Freedom and Boundaries and co-author of Why We’re Not Emergent with Ted Kluck.  He and his wife, Trisha, have three children.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Open Basements, Bad Marriages, and Decorpulation (Kevin)	p. 11
Styles Make Fights (Ted)	p. 21
The Missiological: Jesus among the Chicken Littles (Kevin)	p. 27
Turn the Page: Getting off the Road and Getting Back to Church (Ted)	p. 55
The Personal: On Hurt and Heresy (Kevin)	p. 73
Appetite for Deconstruction: Why church is boring, Christians are (insert: lame, close-minded, or cliquish), and the church doesn't care about (insert my issue). Why all of this is both true and untrue. (Ted)	p. 97
The Historical: One Holy, Catholic Church (Kevin)	p. 115
Brief Interviews: Snapshots of Churched People (including Chuck Colson and Art Monk) (Ted)	p. 143
The Theological: The Church of Diminishing Definition (Kevin)	p. 159
The Year of Jubilee: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Church (Ted)	p. 187
Dear Tristan: To My Son regarding My Hopes and Dreams for Him as They Pertain to the Church (Ted)	p. 199
Epilogue: Toward a Theology of Plodding Visionaries (Kevin)	p. 207
Acknowledgments	p. 231
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