I'm happy to announce that that our new book, Blue Parakeet
We'd really appreciate it if those who have posted reviews on their blogs would carry those over to Amazon and post them at Amazon.
Wednesday morning I flew down to Atlanta for the Catalyst Conference, my first time there and I have to say I was deeply impressed with those who are organizing and orchestrating the event, and with the many, many folks I met. My session, at 1pm, was in the fine arts center at Gwinnett and I spoke about our Blue Parakeet project: rethinking how we read the Bible. Our big idea has been to put into words how it is that Christians "apply" the Bible, which we believe is more consistently understood if we speak of "discernment" of how to live the Bible out in our day than if we speak of applying it as law to our lives.
I'm grateful to the Catalyst folks for my first opportunity to be down there and I'd be interested in the comments of those who have gone to this leadership conference.
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Scot...
I'm looking forward to reading the book. I attended your lab at Catalyst, and thought it was a terrific teaser for the book. For the most part, I tend to agree with the main idea of the book, as you presented it.
I've attended Catalyst four of the past five years. The event is always extremely well-organized, and I've never been disappointed with the return on my investment. The main sessions are sometimes over-hyped, but the variety of presenters is amazing, and rarely has a presenter, whether a minister, social service organizer, or business person, underdelivered. Case in point, last week's conference offered presentations by Seth Godin and Jim Collins - and both offered great and provocative content. Also, I'll plug a younger pastor named Matt Chandler - his message on Wednesday night was incredible.
I would challenge any readers who have not yet experienced Catalyst to plan on attending next year - and be sure to fork out the extra $99 for labs the Wednesday before the conference.
Read and reviewed the book here -
http://lifeasmission.com/blog/2008/10/10/the-blue-parakeet-rethinking-how-you-read-the-bible-by-scot-mcknight/
Posted it to Amazon as well. Thanks Scot.
Thank you Scot.
I will do either of those two things.
I appreciate it bro.
I hope you have a great week!
Scot,
I also got a chance to attend your session at Catalyst and I must say that I enjoyed the presentation. It definitely left me with more questions than answers. Like, how did Paul live out his faith while he was alone(not with the Jews or Gentiles as he mentions in 1 Cor 9)? I presume you flush this out more in the book which may cause me to have to purchase it. I also appreciated the appeal to church canon and tradition with the water slide analogy. I wonder how that settles with some evangelicals who don't seem to give much credence to such things. Thanks tackling an important topic and for coming down to Catalyst this year.
Scot, I attended your Catalyst lab session last week. And while I enjoyed, and was inspired by, most of the speakers, no one challenged my approach to the Scriptures and, thus, leadership, more than you. Thanks.
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