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Flew home from Chicago today... Glad to leave the gray behind (hopefully we'll have a few days reprieve from the fog here in Turlock). The Rockies were spectacular -- as were the deserts of southwest Colorado and northern Arizona. We flew over the Grand Canyon, too!!!

To keep myself entertained, when I wasn't looking out the window, I read Robert Webber's new book The Younger Evangelicals -- more about this once I get over the jet lag. But for now a quote -- "A major problem of the market-driven church is that it is so immersed with the culture that it has become enmeshed with it. The younger evangelicals, on the other hand, are recovering the church as counterculture. The church, this view argues, should not seek to integrate itself with culture or to baptize culture. Instead, the church should see itself as a mission to culture. The church as the instrument of God is called to carry out God's mission in culture, calling people to come under the reign of God through Jesus Christ." (p. 132)