Eric Metcalf | NewThing Adult Ministry Champion
I'm currently reading a book that takes the book of Acts and retells the story in a screenplay fashion. The authors, Brian McClaren and Chris Seay, take the book of Acts (verse by verse) and write it in a way that actors like Russell Crowe or Edward Norton could look at and play a part in.
I realize I'm only a few pages into it (pg. 7), but I am really enjoying the fresh approach to Acts. Brian and his friends wanted to take scripture and write it from the perspective of artists and philosophers - postmoderns versus only seeing scripture through the perspective of thinkers and rationalists - moderns; hypothesizing that our current version of the Bible is just that - a modern perspective on the Gospel. They're not saying the modern "version" is wrong, they're just saying it's modern. Anyway, I am enjoying the book thus far, but how can the Acts of the Apostles not be enjoyable?!?
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