Jonathan Stegall: Creative Tension

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The Out of Bounds Church

A few years ago, during the process of earning a PhD, Steve Taylor wrote The Out of Bounds Church? to show the ways the church was and is changing. Steve lives in New Zealand, so the book is much less U.S.-centric than some other books of its kind, which is beautiful and necessary. It is also true that New Zealand is often further advanced in many of these areas than the U.S., which only increases the relevance of a book like this for us, four years later.

I picked up the book a year or so ago, and finally got around to reading it recently. I have been wanting to blog about it for a couple of weeks since I finished reading it, but I have found it incredibly difficult to narrow down the things I’d like to say. This is easily one of the two or three most impactful books I’ve read on the church and its future in the mission of God.

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About the Designer

Jonathan Stegall is a web designer and emergent/ing follower of Jesus currently living in Atlanta, seeking to abide in the creative tension between theology, spirituality, design, and justice.

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