A Group Study Guide to David Gushee’s Bestselling After Evangelicalism
Millions are getting lost in the evangelical maze: inerrancy, indifference to the environment, deterministic Calvinism, purity culture, racism, LGBTQ discrimination, male dominance, and Christian nationalism. As one of America’s leading public scholars on these issues in religion today, David Gushee offers a clear assessment and his book After Evangelicalism shines a light on the path forward.
The After Evangelicalism Group Study Guide encourages people to read and reflect together on Christianity after evangelicalism.
This study guide, written by someone who taught the material himself, can be used by individuals or groups to accompany the reading of the book. The guide is structured in five sections, each dealing with two of the book’s chapters. Each week of the guide offers three sections: Getting Ready, giving a summary of the big ideas from the book as well as questions for personal reflection; Group Discussion, offering five or six discussion questions; and Paths Forward, providing supplementary material for going further or deeper. There are also one or two spiritual practices people can try, as well as an optional simple Bible study.
’ . . . a succinct yet deeply informed guide for post-evangelicals seeking to pursue Christ-honoring lives.’
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne
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Foreword by David Gushee
Introduction
Week One
Getting Started: Post-Evangelical Experience
Week Two
Post Evangelical Truth: The Bible and the Voice of God
Week Three
God and Jesus: Post-Evangelical Theology
Week Four
Church and Sex: Post-Evangelical Community and Relationships
Week Five
Politics and Race: Post-Evangelical Justice and Engagement with the World
About the Authors
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Steve Watson is the senior pastor of Reservoir Church, a post-evangelical church in Cambridge, MA. Steve’s life and career have been teaching, coaching and mentoring, organizational and community development, and public healing and justice. Steve has a B.A. in music from Brandeis University, a Masters in Education from UMass-Boston, and is enrolled in Doctorate in Theology and Ministry program at the Center for Open and Relational Theology with Northwind Seminary.