Footprints in the Sea

If print can clamor, then we are surrounded, immersed, nearly overwhelmed by a thunder of pages rightly proclaiming the flaws of today's church structures. Book after book appears on the shelves pointing out the failings of Western Christianity.

With his contribution to this conversation, Footprints in the Sea, Ed Chinn proves that he is as interesting and easy-to-listen-to in print as he is in person. He opens the door on yet another of America's church secrets - all the "re-something-ing" we have done to our view of Jesus, nominally the head of this whole thing. He sheds truth's light on today's rethought, reconsidered, reimaged, redesigned, rebuilt, and often "reeee-diculous" image of God's Son.

And, as he would over a cup of coffee or a glass of something stronger, he bluntly refuses to offer a solution. He avoids presenting yet another vision of a path to a new resurrection of Jesus' body by "re-something-ing" church. Instead, he leaves scattered but clearly-defined clues that should allow us to find our own way out of whatever failing - or failed - church structure we wish could be different.

His arguments unfold almost like a novel, only the plot is real, not imagined. We join his walk from simple and inspiring stories of his own beginnings, to truths that, in the words of another friend, Glen Roachelle, deliver "a left hook" to many people's definition and theology of church.

Buy the book. Read it. Talk about it.

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