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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) Paperback – April 30, 2015

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  • Series: Cultural Renewal
  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Crossway (April 30, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 143354623X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1433546235
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.3 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsReflecting the full character of and unity in Christ
By Paul Mastin TOP 1000 REVIEWER on April 19, 2015
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Thimgs are rarely as simple as three clean categories, but Collin Hansen has identified three types of Christians who reflect three characteristics of Jesus: courageous, compassionate, and commissioned. In Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church, Hansen points out ways in which one kind of Christian can have blinds spots, causing them to miss things that other kinds of Christians see.

Many Christians share Hansen's experience: "Because I'd understood my experience as normative for everyone, I couldn't see how God blessed other Christians with different stories and strengths." Courageous Christians are sometimes "single-issue Christians," with a passionate interest in a particular social cause. They become dangerous when they become "only-issue Christians." They might become intolerant, demanding that "you fall in line behind their agenda." Their courage in the face of evil and sin is admirable and Christlike, until they forget that "courage is not measured by how many people you can offend."

Compassionate Christians want to give, but may emphasize giving at the expense of the gospel itself. They have to recognize that our "compassion won't always be appreciated or even received by a world that rejects the source of our compassion." No matter how much we give, do, or love, many still "reject us and the gospel Jesus preached." The third characteristic, commissioned, sets evangelicals apart: "Belief that the Great Commission still applies to us today separates evangelicals from churches that have sued for peace with our pluralistic age." But even commissioned churches have a tendency to be homogenous, even elitist.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsSeveral Good Spots, but A Few Glaring Issues
By The4thDave on May 13, 2015
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In his new book, Blind Spots, Collin Hansen turns the mirror onto Christians like me who have the tendency to assume our way of walking out the faith is the best way. His short but powerful book pokes around in the heart of evangelicalism and reveals that we can easily become blind to our own weaknesses, even in the midst of doing the work of the Kingdom of God.

Hansen identifies 3 kinds of Christian responses to the world: the compassionate, the courageous, and the commissioned. He argues that the church needs all 3 kinds in order to function well: the compassionate, who see the need and injustice of the world and rush to help; the courageous, who guard against doctrinal corruption and boldly stand for truth; and the commissioned, who seek new ways of presenting and proclaiming the gospel so that lost people will hear and believe. The problem Hansen goes on to describe is that each group has its own blind spots and weaknesses: “The compassionate struggle to empathize with their critics. The courageous don’t like truth that makes them look bad. And commissioned Christians don’t always enjoy the mission when it jeopardizes their lifestyle and preconceptions about the way of the world” (p. 34).

Rather than addressing our own issues, Hansen says, we can sometimes turn and blame each other for not being more like us. Throughout the book, he addresses each group’s self-blindness and points us back to Jesus our Lord’s example.

Strong Spots:
This book was incisive and direct. There’s no fluff here. I really appreciated that.

Further, I really liked Hansen’ s repeated affirmation of Scripture as our rule of life and practice. Every single chapter, he called each group to hold onto Biblical truth.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsI can see more clearly now... and hope to see yet clearer still
By E. J. Boston on April 22, 2015
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Collin Hansen presents the Christian world with an helpful, new book that seeks to honor the individual strengths God the Spirit has given his church—highlighting the need for courage, compassion, and commission in a full-orbed, multi-facetious reality rather than a truncated and limited one-ism which esteems a single strength and derides the remaining two. “Not a balance,” Hansen says, but the fullness of each applied in the appropriate circumstances. Indeed, Christ was compassionate! But he also chastised the unrepentant sinner. Yes, Christ was bold! But he also presented the gospel in communicable stories. Christ was Prophet, Priest, and King who knew precisely how use his head, heart, and hands in whichever fashion the individual needed.

Book Thesis:

“This book is about seeing our differences as opportunity. God created us in splendid diversity of thought, experience, and personality. And when these differences cohere around the gospel of Jesus Christ, they work together to challenge, comfort, and compel a needy world with the only love that will never fail or fade.”

Hansen further explains his motivation for this next installment in Crossway and TGC’s Cultural Renewal Series:

“I wrote this book because my arguments stopped working. I pointed to Bible verses. I appealed to reason. I turned to church history. Nothing changed with my opponents.”

And he did not write it in order that

“You would find popularity with the world or make peace with one another at the expense of the revealed truth of God’s Word,”

But rather that we all

“Might learn to compare [ourselves] more to Christ than to other Christians.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsIt was a good read. Yet it really started out good and ...

It was a good read.Yet it really started out good and at the final chapter fizzled out. I was wanting Hansen to talk more on the vine and the branches.

Published 7 months ago by James Dickey
5.0 out of 5 starsGiving Us The Eyes For What We Cannot See.

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5.0 out of 5 starsEncouraged, Convicted and Motivated

I found myself encouraged, convicted and motivated to think more deeply about how I (and our church) can be courageous in an increasingly divided world, reaching out with uncommon... Read more

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Whether one's Church is growing or declining, young or old, large or small, there will be blind spots from the leadership level down to the ordinary member. Read more

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Published 9 months ago by Book Reviewer
4.0 out of 5 starsA great book encouraging us to embrace our weaknesses as we pursue...

A lot of people are going to hate Collin Hansen’s new book, Blind Spots. Some are going to be upset because it seems too accommodating. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Aaron Armstrong
4.0 out of 5 starsThroughout the gospels there is overwhelming evidence to support...

“I wrote this book...to expose our blind spots so that we could see our differences as opportunities. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starsChallenging and Needed Message

Blind spots. This term is probably most recognizable in relation to driving. We can think we are progressing down the road correctly and have the ability to continue down the... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Michael C. Boling
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