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Turning the World Upside Down, Down Under

By TylerR on Sat, 12/09/17
Society & Culture
Cultural Engagement
Evangelism

Michael Bird: As Americans debate the Benedict Option, anti-Christian fervor in Australia has convinced me that we need a more disruptive strategy.

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TylerR

NewMore

Sat, 12/09/17

Bird gave a lecture on this concept, too.

Tyler is a pastor in Olympia, WA and works in State government.

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Bert Perry

NewGreat point

Mon, 12/11/17

I like what he notes; we might also phrase it as the “early church” strategy, where people quietly went about their lives in Christ and turned the empire of Rome upside down—gaining huge credibility by caring for pagans whose own relatives and friends wouldn’t give them care during a plague.

Appreciated the story of Cooper’s Brewery carrying on the lessons learned halfway around the world in Dublin by Arthur Guinness, too.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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