I just came across a series of books by Hughes Oliphant Old, which examine how the church over the centuries has understood preaching and teaching the Scriptures. I always run into people that are expository only folks, and I ask them to show me the biblical evidence to prove that we can only preaching exegetically [...]
“The missional church does not ask how can you serve me but how can we unite as the people of God for something larger than ourselves, to believe what our presbyterian principles are–that we can do far more corporately as a church, than we can do individually, to believe that deeply and profoundly.”
Bryan Chappell 2007 [...]
There seem to be two ways of perceiving the path to god, one more often spoken of and the other less known. One–there are many up the mountain and they all lead to the same God. Even if these paths are in fact in opposition to each other. Two–each path leads to a different gods, [...]
“I fear that many pastors today have fallen into the error of preaching the doctrines of grace theoretically instead of preaching them practically and using the truths of Scripture to draw men to Christ. Instead of using the Bible as our instrument to draw men into fellowship with God, biblical doctrine has become our grounds [...]
Last week Art Boulet wrote a post called “conform to church and convert to christ” the post was interesting and it got several comments, including this one from me:
Here is the problem, if you are ministering in an area over like say 10k people, you are limiting who you are reaching by embracing one culture [...]
Goodmanson ask whether or not the Gospel is Awakening.
Mark Driscoll points to the signs of burnout.
David Fairchild talks about the Top 25 Church planting churches
And in other news:
CNN reports that the N-word was buried this week.
Man I am such a creep. My friend Tim’s ministry Harvest USA is in need of more supporters, and Im not even one of them. Does anyone else feel like me? They want to see a changed culture, they want to see people meeting and loving Jesus, but then they feel like jerks when they [...]
In recent talks with local church leaders and pastors, I have heard alot of talk about people who are empire building. They are hesitant to embrace what groups Harbor, and Redeemer and Mars Hill, are doing. These local people that I’ve talked to are hesitant to be seen or to move towards creating any “movement”.
Of [...]
While listening to this week’s vodcast from Marshill Church, I was presented with their new plans for expansion. New sites, new services, and more reorganization.
While he was speaking about their plans to add more services, and locations, Mark Driscoll said out loud what many people looking at a church of 6,000 who are hoping to [...]
I’ll admit that this post’s title sounds like a chapter out of some nebulous 20th century theology book, but although I could not come up with a cool title, the topic of God and Money is still a very interesting one.
I have been a fan of Mark Driscoll now for over a year or so, [...]