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Dr. Andy Root is back y'all! With a new book and summer session on the history, hope, and reimagination of what it means to be a pastoral figure in this new age we are living!

Episode 182 is only the warm-up for the live session. Don't miss it! 

Learn more with and from Dr. Andrew Root @ our FREE LIVE Webinar June 12th 2:00pm CDT

Show Notes & Quotes:
For both the yellow book and blue book the key writings in the background are, A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. 

Andy declares that A Secular Age is, "the first book of the 21st Century that will be read in the 22nd Century

Youthfulness and the importance of authenticity in this age. 

The hurt of pastoral identity in this secular age. “I know how to write a sermon and run a meeting, But when it comes to seeing God’s living presence in their lives I feel at a loss. “

“Where is the place of the pastor in the world?”

A Sketch Of History
What does it mean that in 1500 AD you can’t help but find Christians and evidence of Christianity? And now 500 years later it is harder and harder to find anyone that believes in God. 

That to do ministry is to have an encounter with the presence of the living God. 
This means working towards a deep connection with how God works in the world. 

The stakes are wrong. We misdiagnose what’s actually going on. It’s possible that Youth Ministers have been playing checkers in a chess world.

The game or environment is more complicated than we had originally thought. 

There is a whole cultural imagination that makes it difficult to live in the presence of a living God. 

Key Historical Figures Sketched Out In The New Book
St. Augustine
Thomas Beckett
Jonathan Edwards 
Henry Ward Beecher
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Rick Warren

In this new age, pastors are hurting and either they make the turn to self-blame or congregational blame. 

If Jesus is better than our church will be larger is the trap we have been lured into, so how do we talk about Growth as transcendence  

Forming imaginations and proclaiming where God is active in the world. 

When non-traditional people became pastors? 

Ministry itself, the sharing of a life with another, is the call to pastor. 

A refreshed theological lens. God as a minister. God as pastor. 

“The only God we can known is the God who is made known in

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