Rediscovering the Bible in Community with Tim Conder: Homebrewed Christianity 52
By Chad Crawford • May 28th, 2009 • Category: podcast
The hermeneutics train keeps rolling this week with Tim Conder, founding pastor of Emmaus Way in Durham, North Carolina. Tim talks about his new book, Free for All, about approaching biblical interpretation as a community of faith.
Here’s a taste:
The Bible, especially in times of great culture change, but always, the Bible is in need of liberation, and so we’re trying to demonstrate how God’s Spirit works in dramatic ways when a community is tasked with not just being passive listeners but co-interpreters and co-creators with whatever authority shapes their fellowship.
You bring a bias to the text. And where those biases become dangerous is when they’re not identified.
One of the ways that we have a liberated reading of the text is to acknowledge our biases and to create diversity of voices so that those biases are balanced out.
Free for All: Rediscovering the Bible in Community by Tim Conder with Daniel Rhodes is available for pre-order and is due out August 1.
Also from Tim: The Church in Transition: The Journey of Existing Churches into Emerging Culture
Check out the Emmaus Way Podcast
As you’ve come to expect, we also have a little fun with some of our Homebrewed Christianity Deacons, who left messages on our call-in line. Thanks to Theresa Seeber, who was inspired to share a clip from The Pick of Destiny (caution: f-bombs), my college pal Ryan Busby, and some more folks we have to save for next time. If you want to join in the fun, you can call us at 210-787-1057.
Chad Crawford is a graduate of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Wake Forest University Divinity School. He is originally from Austin, Texas and now lives in San Francisco, where he is the online communications manager for Interfaith Power & Light, a nonprofit organization mobilizing a religious response to global warming. He's a former youth minister and long distance hiker sharing thoughts on ecology, politics, culture, and faith.
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NO FREAKIN WAY! You just combined the greatest podcast in the history of the world with the greatest band in the history of the world. Tenacious D rules supreme! I’m in Podcast heaven, jammin’ with Sasquatch.
Two big mistakes biasing this book:
1. The authority of the Catholic churches (Roman, Orthodox, Eastern Rite) did NOT come from discourse. Discourse was indeed the method by which the Apostles and their successors learned- but the AUTHORITY came from CHRIST, The Word of God, not from scripture which is not the word of God.
2. The lack of respect for the bias of the Apostles, and for the Church they created. Emergence is doing great things, but I don’t understand why they don’t see that the option to the mistakes of making the Bible into an Idol- is Catholicism.
Hey, thanks for using my clips! I loved it! I really feel embraced as a Deacon!