Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
reaching out without selling out
by Mark Driscoll
I had to resist quoting the entire book here. Mark points out a middle way between sectarianism and syncretism. This involves engaging the culture more than extreme fundamentalists are comfortable with, while also sticking to fundamental doctrines more openly than liberals want to.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Mark Driscoll on the "Emerging Church"
"I love you, but you are going to Hell, but I love you, and you don't need to go to Hell."
"'If we lose the Virgin Birth, what do we really lose?' Um... the bible, and Jesus... That's kinda a lot!"
(Preceding quotations are actually paraphrases from ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
by Richard J Foster
Streams of Living Water identifies the "six great traditions of the Christian faith," Gives an historical, biblical, and contemporary example of a person who best exemplified each tradition, then points out the strengths and potential pitfalls of each tradition.
The traditions are: Contemplative, Holiness, Charismatic, Social Justice, Evangelical, ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
I really need to get and read Streams of Living Water by Richard Foster. My uncle told me about it about four years ago, and I've been thinking about it a lot since then. Most recently when I was reading The Twilight of Atheism.
Each instance of the local church has ...
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
The Episcopal "Church" is suing to regain it's property from the 11 churches in Virginia that broke away from the larger body in order to remain with orthodox Anglican beliefs.
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead ...
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Two Years Ago
Now:
You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan, You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also ...
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Excellent book. I would recommend just about everyone read this.
Some quotations from chapter 5 "Confession and Communion":
"Confess your faults to one another" (Jas 5:16). He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone. It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship ...
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan86%Reformed Evangelical61%Neo orthodox57%Emergent/Postmodern57%Roman Catholic57%Fundamentalist46%Charismatic/Pentecostal46%Classical Liberal36%Modern Liberal14%What's your theological worldview?created with QuizFarm.comI wouldn't say this was the best quiz I ever took, but I think it was a little better thought out than the last one I took about my theological whatever...Still there were too many statements that I would ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2004
"Warning: Belief-O-Matic tm assumes no legal liability for the ultimate fate of your soul."The Belief o Matic is a pretty funny little quiz. There are very deep groves in the test though, and there is no differentiation between the "Mainline Protestant" groups. The funniest thing is that I know ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2004
Division in the Christian Church stems partially from the thought that all Christians should look alike, that we should all experience God in the same way. Lutherans, for example, looking at Methodists and saying: "they aren't grounded in the Word well enough" is like the eyes looking at the hands ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2004
It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Ghost. Man's lordship has cost us too much. Man's intrusive will has introduced such a multiplicity of unscriptural ways and unscriptural activities as positively to threaten the life of the church. --A.W. Tozer The Pursuit of Man
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Saturday, March 27th, 2004
I posted this at the forums of the Emerging Church community in orkut, but if you aren't a member you can read it here:What is a creed? or confession?I have, at times, found myself thinking (not in so many words): "If I can just get a perfect creed..." and finishing ...
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