(To The Traditional vs Progressive Debate) An ancient saint once said, “It is equally wrong and stupid to censure what is commendable, and to commend what is censurable.”1 G.K. Chesterton once argued against a false premise by stating, “It was not two ways of finding the same truth; it was an untruthful way of pretending […]
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Tag: Methodology
Free To Be A Servant
Martin Luther wrote, “A Christian man is a free lord over all things and subject to nobody. A Christian man is a ministering servant in all things and subject to everybody.”1 It seems that great men have always had a sense of true servanthood. I don’t believe that great men ever wanted to be great; […]
The Wilderness Encroaches
Admitting that, when you first go to mingle with worldly scenes, you may intend not to be seduced from the path of duty; admitting that you at first possess sincerity, firmness, and courage; you will soon deviate from them. Those ideas of zeal and firmness against vice with which you enter into the world will […]
Polling For Moral Authority
Yet, within the Church as well as outside it, this perverted notion persists. Truth is conceived on a quantitative basis—no doubt under the influence of statistical reasoning and public opinion polls. It is being assumed that the more people there are with different opinions to contribute, the greater ‘truth’ will emerge from the mixing of […]
Members In Particular
The sacrifice of selfish privacy which is daily demanded of us is daily repaid a hundredfold in the true growth of personality which the life of the Body encourages. Those who are members of one another become as diverse as the hand and the ear. That is why the worldlings are so monotonously alike compared […]
To What Are We Accountable?
“One out of four Americans (23 percent) state that religious beliefs and teaching are the single, most significant influence on their thinking about whether or not there is such a thing as absolute moral truth. The next most prolific influence is said to be the Bible (15 percent). Other significant sources of influence about moral […]
The Purpose Driven Church
Rick Warren is the pastor of the Saddleback Valley Community Church in Orange County, CA., an SBC church. The church has grown to over 10,000 in attendance in fifteen years of existence. Although Warren says the book is about church health, not church growth (p. 17), it is no doubt a church growth book as […]
The Tragedy of Compromise
I just received this 1994 book in the mail from a good friend. This is a review of the twentieth century from the early Liberal-Fundamental battles to the “marketing” battles today. Pickering has first-hand knowledge of many of the foremost figures in these controversies. Having seen all the water go under the bridge, Pickering is […]
Willow Creek Seeker Services
For those who see church methodology as biblically neutral, this 1996 book may be a source book for using market driven techniques. For those who see church methodology as a reflection of who we are in Christ, you may not want to waste your time with this book other than to gain an understanding of […]
Born After Midnight
Three Books By A. W. Tozer I don’t know what you may like to read while you’re on a vacation. I think reading nothing at all may be the best. But this time I took three familiar Tozer books with me in hopes that I would be uplifted and drawn back into focus in my spiritual […]