Kiley+Ferrill-Summary

In Barna's book //The Seven Faith Tribes//, he discusses the ideas of seven different religions and their qualities that they have. Each religions has its own rules and practices. This book was very interesting because it gives insight to each different religion. He even discusses the idea of having two different kinds of Christians, the Casual Christian and the Captive Christian. He says that Casual Christians are those who believe in Jesus but do not follow him as well as they should. They do not "walk the walk" and do not "talk the talk." He states that Casual Christians are not as convicted as Captive Christians. They have some of the same views but do not practice what they preach. On the other hand, there are Captive Christians who are those who believe in Jesus and follow his teaching and live there lives for him in every thing they do. They influence the world by there Godly actions and words. After discussing the ideas of Captive and Casual Christians, he discusses many other religions such as American Jews, Mormons, Pantheists, Muslims, and Spiritual Skeptics. He describes them in detail and how they the world and their characteristics. After giving an overview of each of these religions, in Appendix Three Barna gives a list of shared values. This list is a list of the core values of the faith community that each religion shares.

Included is an article describing the idea of all of these religions discussed in Barna's book coming together to save the world.

@http://www.alittleleaven.com/2009/04/can-the-seven-faith-tribes-save-america.html



In John Stott's book //The Living Church//, he discusses that as a church we should become learning churches, worshiping churches, caring churches, and evangelizing churches. These are the essentials of a positive church and how the church should be in the eyes of John Stott. He describes a certain dialectic that of which we must process and he presents this through the word holy worldliness. He describes this world as being distinct from the world and worldliness becoming immersed in teh life of the world. The two extremes of holy worldliness are 1) The church has withdrawn from and the world and has neglected their mission 2) The Church has conformed to the world and neglected its holiness but forgetting its views and values (Stott 54). He also goes into detail writing about the truths of salt and light. He talks about how salt and light really affect our society. He talks about how salt is to permeate meat and how light is to permeate the darkness. He uses these as a way to show that we need to be the light and salt of the world. This is how to influence the world. The first truth of salt and light is that as Christians we are different from those who are not Christians. We are to be different in the ways of being light to this dark world and to be the salt of a hindering social decaying society. The second truth that Stott discusses is that we must permeate our secular society. We need to be a part of taking acre of this world. We need to let the news of Jesus be known. This is one of the ways we can reach others and be the salt and light of the world. According to Stott we need to permeate every aspect of society and we can do this through everything that we do. The third truth that Stott discusses is that we as Christians can influence and change our secular society. Salt and light go together and can be used to help influence those around us. John Stott also discusses the ideas of fellowship and how as Christians we need fellowship to have community. "People need fellowship, and it is God's will that they should have it" (Stott 87).

Being Salt and Light in Culture-Video

Articles on The Living Church

@http://www.ivpress.com/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=3486

@http://www.livingchurch.org/

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