Stratum Speaker Series - Gerald Sittser

250 Stevenson Street,San Francisco CA 94103

22 October, 2021

Description

Resilient Faith and the Future of the Church: A Conversation with Dr. Jerry Sittser Join us in the small private audience as we video record a conversation with Dr. Jerry Sittser. We are inviting you and encouraging you to bring three others with you (your spouse/significant other, a key ministry leader, and their spouse/significant other if applicable). Jerry will speak for 45 minutes. We will then follow up in conversation. Feel free to join us for a pre-event casual meal at Super-Duper Burger (right around the corner at 721 Market St ) at 6pm. Our topic: The early Christian movement became known as the Third Way because Christians rejected both accommodation to culture and isolation from culture. Instead, Christians immersed themselves in the culture as followers of Jesus. Christ ushered in this new way of living, which in turn spawned a new moment--new in theology, in story, in authority, in community, in worship, and in behavior. Christian belief was so new, in fact, that it required Christians to develop a process of formation in the Third Way to move new believers from conversion to discipleship, from outsider to insider, from observer to full-fledged member, which produced generation after generation of believers who, established firmly in the faith, were able to grow the movement over a long period of time. Jerry Sittser specializes in the History of Christianity, Christian Spirituality, and Religion in American Public Life. Currently, he serves half-time as a Professor of theology and half-time as a senior fellow and researcher in the Office of Church Engagement at Whitworth University. He has written nine books, his most recent being Resilient Faith: How the Early Christian "Third Way" Changed the World.