Dan Kimball

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Dan Kimball

Dan Kimball (born November 21, 1960 in New Jersey ) is an evangelical theologian, pastor, author and teacher. Together with a team he founded the Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz . He is counted among the thought leaders of the emerging church movement.

Life

Kimball grew up in northeast New Jersey in the greater New York area . As a young adult he came to London where he learned an authentic Christian faith through an older man named Stuart Allen . He studied landscape architecture at Colorado State University in Fort Collins , Colorado , then theology at Multnomah Biblical Seminary in Portland , Oregon , where he graduated in 1989. He received his Master of Arts degree from the Western Seminary in San Jose in 1999 . He received a PhD in leadership from the George Fox University Evangelical Seminary in Newberg , Oregon, in 2006 .

Private

He is married to Becky and they have two daughters.

Vintage Faith Church

With a group of like-minded people, he founded the Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz in 2004 , which was previously part of the Santa Cruz Bible Church , where he served as a youth pastor for eight years. The vision was to be an adoring, missionary and theological community . Kimball has dealt intensively with the prevailing postmodern youth culture because he himself belonged to a rockabilly - punk band that was not adapted and did not fit into any Christian subculture . Creative and artistic elements and an authentic atmosphere are important components of the Vintage Faith Church , they show up in the church services , in other meetings, in the coffee house, in the art gallery and in the music concerts that are held in The Abbey , as the church building is called, during the be carried out all week. In 2013 he started a series of sermons "Taking the Vintage Voyage" (German: Take part in the Weinberg-Kirchen-Reise ) to explain and deepen his holistic approach.

Teaching

Kimball teaches part-time at the Western Seminary in San Jose, and he is also a professor of missionary leadership at George Fox University in Portland. He is also a visiting professor of evangelism and leadership at Wheaton College near Chicago. He opposes an externally determined Christian evangelical subculture in the USA and worldwide, which has internally distanced itself from Jesus , the Bible and the attractive community of early Christianity . Celebrating (celebrating), connecting (connecting) and coaching (promoting) characterize true Christian community today. He has developed methods and new elements of how church parishes, worship services, sermons, evangelism and leadership can be in order to be relevant and missionary in a post-modern, post-Christian culture.

literature

Works

German

English

  • The Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for new generations. Youth Specialties, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2003. ISBN 978-0-310-24564-3
  • With David Crowder and Sally Morgenthaler: Emerging worship: creating worship gatherings for new generations. Youth Specialties, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2004. ISBN 978-0-310-25644-1
  • The like Jesus but not the Church: Insight from Emerging Generations. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2007. ISBN 978-0-310-24590-2
  • With Mark Driscoll, John Burke, and Doug Pagit: Listening to the beliefs of emerging Churches: Fives Perspectives. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2007. ISBN 978-0-310-27135-2
  • They like Jesus but not the Church participant's guide: six sessions responding to culture's objections to christianity. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2008. ISBN 978-0-310-27794-1
  • With Sean McDowell and David Kinnaman: Apologetics for a new generation: a biblical and culturally relevant approach to talking about God. ConversantLife, Harvest. 2009. ISBN 978-0-7369-2520-4
  • With J. Matthew Pinson, Timothy Quill, Ligon Duncan, and Dan Wilt: Perspectives on Christian Worship: Five Views. B & H, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8054-4099-7
  • Adventures in Churchland: Finding Jesus in the mess of organized religion. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2012. ISBN 978-0-310-27556-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.multnomah.edu/seminary/
  2. ↑ a b http://www.westernseminary.edu/
  3. ↑ http://www.georgefox.edu/about/index.html
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wheaton.edu
  5. ^ Donald A. Carson : The Emerging Church. Farewell to biblical teaching? Christian literature distribution , Bielefeld 2008. ISBN 978-3-89397-989-9 . Page 51
personal data
SURNAME Kimball, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American evangelical pastor, church planter, teacher, author, and emerging church thought leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey