{"id":688,"date":"2006-08-19T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T21:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/19\/suckerpunched\/"},"modified":"2006-08-19T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T21:52:07","slug":"suckerpunched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/19\/suckerpunched","title":{"rendered":"Suckerpunched\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was bitterly disappointed at the reference section at <a href=\"http:\/\/berean.com\/be\/\">Berean Christian Store<\/a> in San Jose. I had gone in with a coupon figuring I\u2019d pick up a sweet and expensive commentary at reduced rate. After scouring the commentary section I concluded that there was not one single commentary in the store worth owning.<\/p>\n<p>It made me very, very sad. I hate to be one of those ministers who is always whining about how Christian book stores are dumbing down the faith, but I was almost sick inside at the low quality of the books on&nbsp;offer.<\/p>\n<p>As I was on my way out, I noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/catalog.php?work=947720\">Breaking The Missional Code<\/a> was for sale. Since I had a coupon and the book had been recommended to me by several friends and I didn\u2019t want to leave bitter at the store, I picked it&nbsp;up.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an easy read and I was generally appreciative of their thoughts (especially their warning to the rapidly swelling missional networks to not neglect traditional missions in favor of church planting), and I was almost done with it when I got suckerpunched at the&nbsp;end.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent development in church planting is that of planting churches on or near college campuses. Leaders are discovering that when churches are planted on campus they are more strategic at reaching unreached and disconnected people on the college campus. They represent a<strong> shift from college and campus ministries that focus on those who already embrace the faith<\/strong> to that of planting the gospel among those who have never or seldom heard.<br><i>Breaking The Missional Code<\/i>, Ed Stetzer &amp; David Putman p. 232<br>emphasis added<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel vaguely slandered\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I think perhaps the authors misunderstand what campus ministries do. And they also overestimate the ability of churches to thrive on the college campus \u2014 some campuses are very reachable that way and others are not. It\u2019s a tool in our toolbox for reaching collegians, not a replacement toolbox.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it\u2019s a good book if you haven\u2019t read anything about leading your church to engage the culture before. Otherwise you might find it repetitious. And libelous.&nbsp;\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was bitterly disappointed at the reference section at Berean Christian Store in San Jose. I had gone in with a coupon figuring I\u2019d pick up a sweet and expensive commentary at reduced rate. After scouring the commentary section I concluded that there was not one single commentary in the store worth owning. It made \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/19\/suckerpunched\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cSuckerpunched\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-b6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}