Build-a-Faith is Hot says Emergents like Mark Scandrette and...

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Build-a-Faith is Hot
Posted by Ingrid Schlueter in New Spirituality, Religion on April 5th, 2010 | 4 responses
Like the Build-a-Bear chain offering countless ways to build a stuffed bear, evangelical churches now offer Build-a-Faith where nothing is too pagan, too occult, too unbiblical to encounter “God” and build a faith that’s right for you.

This article from the L.A. Times reports on the popularity of Christian yoga where you can “breath down Jesus” at evangelical churches.


Bending yoga to fit their worship needs - latimes.com

Rayna Mike said she was skeptical of yoga before she started going to Brock’s class at the Church at Rocky Peak, an evangelical congregation. “I never did it before because I considered it Eastern philosophy and I didn’t want any part of it,” said Mike, a Bel-Air businesswoman.

Mike changed her mind when her trainer at the Church on the Way in Van Nuys recommended the yoga class, and she said the practice has improved her health while feeding her soul.

“You can go and sweat anywhere, but that’s not the point,” she said. “This is a beautiful thing. It’s an answer to my prayers.”

Brock completed a 200-hour accredited course in Phoenix designed by Brooke Boon, author of the book “Holy Yoga.” Boon has trained nearly 200 Christian yogis, about a dozen of whom are teaching in Southern California.

“Christ is my guru. Yoga is a spiritual discipline much like prayer, meditation and fasting,” Boon said in a telephone interview. “No one religion can claim ownership.”

Here’s one group that is proud of its “do-it-yourself” religion under the guise of a new Christianity.



“These days, religion is intellectual ************* It’s not experimental enough,” said Mark Scandrette the founder of the group, called ReImagine, and author of the book “Soul Graffiti.


So what does Scandrette’s new thing look like?




After Scandrette moved to San Francisco from Minnesota 12 years ago, he began calling himself a recovered fundamentalist Christian. He says he was like many young Christians who migrate to the Bay Area from a conservative setting: burned out on institutional Christianity, but not ready to give up on Jesus. Rather than focus on the savior from eternal damnation, he wanted to focus on Jesus as a guru of simplicity, a fighter against poverty and oppression.

“We think spiritual formation that’s really vibrant looks more like a karate studio than a conference hall,” he said. “It’s like a Jesus dojo.”


Build-a-Faith is Hot- The Crosstalk Blog

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2 more comments on Scandrette


he was part of the Emergent Church sideshow aka the Church Basement roadshow a few years back which was consiting of Scandrette and also Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones





my old church that went emergent and universalist around the time I left

had these guys speak there a couple years ago.