From the category archives:
iGens are emerging adults, the 20-somethings that everyone seems to be talking about. I happen to be one of them. My good friend Dick Rockenbach sent me a great article entitled Storming the Castle by Scot McKnight. McKnight says that “Reaching ‘iGens’ means breaking through inflated self-esteems.” I couldn’t agree more. He points out, … [...]
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This is a great poem by Taylor Mali that has been turned into a short video. I saw this at Extreme Theology and thought I’d share it: Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo. Perhaps some of the reasons that Christian music sucks stem from postmodern nonsense?
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G.K. Chesterton said that what we suffer from “is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition . . . [and] settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful of himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has [...]
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This quote pretty well sums up the new “chic” nonreligious Christian spirituality that has come to define much of postmodern Christendom. In a church that has become 5 miles wide and 1 inch deep, the journey has become far more important than the destination. Kevin DeYoung makes a great point about this in the book [...]
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iMonk posted a quote from Deyoung & Kluck’s recent book, Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion. While I haven’t stood on the opposite side of the fence on all of these statements, the overall truth of this quote hit me: Consistency is not a postmodern virtue. And nowhere is [...]
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I’m sick of pastors drawing erroneous insights from texts due to bad exegesis. Looking a word up in a Strong’s Dictionary does not constitute being an exegetical scholar. This is seen frequently in the writings of many major evangelical leaders today. I just stumbled upon another faulty translation (and teaching) by Rob Bell. In one [...]
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Thanks to Truth Matters for initially posting this: I find it intriguing that Mark Driscoll even questions Rob Bell, Brian McLaren and others. VERY good explanation of the Emerging Church movement.
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I found a great article on Wikipedia that breaks down what the Emerging Church is. I know many readers have been wondering what it is and how to define it. By nature, it is hard to define. Some key quotes that I found helpful are: The emerging church (sometimes referred to as the emergent church [...]
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I hate to do this sort of thing, but I am almost moved to tears when I see this kind of deception. Charisma Magazine put out a piece on it entitled ‘A Holy Ghost Outbreak in Florida’ – “…Charismatics are flocking to the sleepy town of Lakeland, Florida. to attend evangelist Todd Bentley’s unconventional revival [...]
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I ran across this quote awhile ago, I thought I’d post it for all of you to think about (and of course comment on)…. “Christianity began as a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. When it went to Athens, it became a philosophy. When it went to Rome, it became an organization. When it went to [...]
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Does the word evangelical mean “right wing political activist?” Many outsiders have began to equate the two. In a recent article from Yahoo News entitled Evangelicals say faith is now too political, authors Rachel Zoll and Eric Gorski write: Conservative Christian leaders who believe the word “evangelical” has lost its religious meaning plan to release [...]
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It seems that churches across America consider Jesus to be one of many topics that can be preached on, or at least He is not for every Sunday. Jesus must be at the center of our lives and our teaching and preaching. Yet it seems like He is merely an accessory in today’s ‘emerging’ brand [...]
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I read a blog post today entitled, Religious People Must Become More Literate About Religion from Dr. C. Drew Smith, Ph.D. Dr. Smith begins by saying, In his book, Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–And Doesn’t (2007), Stephen Prothero argues that while Americans are the most religious people in the Western World, we [...]
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I’ve talked to a lot of people lately. The message I seem to be hearing is that the church they have attended for years has all of a sudden drastically changed. The Sunday morning service has been replaced with a collection of skits and stories. Preaching from the Bible is almost taboo. While in some [...]
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