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A Jesus Manifesto - Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola on SBE

Erik Guzman October 30th, 2009

Jesus fadingLeadership principles, church programs, moralism and guilt…is that what Christianity is all about? Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola say we're missing something. Actually, they say we're missing Someone.

Join Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola on Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century.

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Dr. Leonard Sweet is a historian of American culture, futurist, preacher and writer. His latest books include So Beautiful, 11: Indispensable Relationships You Can't Be Without and The Gospel According to Starbucks. Find out more at LeonardSweet.com.

Frank Viola is a speaker, organic church planter and author of Pagan Christianity?, Reimagining Church and From Eternity to Here. Click here for Frank's last appearance on SBE.

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2 Responses to “A Jesus Manifesto - Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola on SBE”

Obed November 5th, 2009

This was a good episode. Like Erik, I'm working on my degree in ministry and stuff. And like Steve, sometimes I'm the most religious person my friends know. This episode was like a mental/spiritual sigh for me, easing the tension from my shoulders and saying "Oh, it's all right then."

George dunn November 6th, 2009

Listening to this I heard two things deep in my spirit:

1) i have this against you, you have left your first love!

and the left side of my brain says "You have become enamored with the institution of marriage, with concepts of marriage and with talking about marriage but are no longer enamored with our wife!

2) I hear the lyrics to an OLD song, "The Dangling conversations by Simon and Garfunkel

It's a still life water color,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lace
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
The borders of our lives.

And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

Yes, we speak of things that matter,
With words that must be said,
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our lives.

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