The sub-title of the book is: “rock music’s impact on worship and evangelism.” That objective is overwhelmingly explored and answered in this book. Blanchard, who wrote Pop Goes The Gospel in 1983, and Lucarini, who wrote Why I Left The Contemporary Christian Music Movement in 2002, combine to bring a stunningly up-to-date look at the […]
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Seeker Sensitive or Sinner Sensitive? (p...
The last issue I presented what I believe to be the obvious short-comings of the Seeker Sensitive movement. It has been my observation that this movement, though beginning with good intentions, has strayed from the biblical model of evangelism. “Seekers” have become a market place and the gospel a commodity, the price of which has […]
Are Fundamentalists Legalists?
Before Dr. Pickering went home to be with the Lord he wrote, among the many books he authored, what I think may be his most important words to our generation. The booklet is a reply to Charles Swindoll’s The Grace Awakening (1990, 1996). Swindoll caricatures Fundamentalists as being “squint-eyed legalists spying out and attacking another’s […]
Seeker Sensitive or Sinner Sensitive? (...
Maybe it’s just me but does it seem as if many are saying that no one has been “sensitive” to “seekers” until the end of the twentieth century? One gets the feeling from such writers that until recently most Christian evangelism was overly aggressive, mean-spirited, and did everything possible to turn sinners off to the […]
The Thesis or Antithesis? (part 3)
This is the third article in a series having to do with a comparison between conservative and contemporary churches. Labels are often unfortunate because contemporary churches may also call themselves fundamental or conservative in certain ways. They usually mean that they are conservative in their list of “doctrinal” beliefs although other beliefs about biblical practices […]
The Thesis or Antithesis? (part 1)
The difference between the conservative and contemporary churches are becoming more evident. A recent pamphlet titled, “Is Your Church Going Purpose Driven?”1 lists 24 visible “signs” that begin to happen when a ministry is in the process of moving from traditional to contemporary. Many people I know who have experienced this kind of change readily […]
The Emerging Church (part 2)
The primary tenet of the Emerging Church has been that we must a) recognize that our culture has become postmodern and b) we must immerse our churches much more into this postmodernism if we are to reach this generation with the gospel. It has been my contention that “a” is true but “b” is false. […]
The Emerging Church (part 1)
There is no rut so deep to fall into as the need for constant change. Already we are being told that “postmodernism” is out of date and we are now living in a “post-postmodern” time. Spurgeon described the shifting sands of his own day in this way: “It will have no creed because it can […]
The New Worship
This has been the next “contemporary church” book on my list to read. Liesch is a popular writer who promotes the converging of various worship styles to meet the desires of a new generation. His main thesis is that worship must include an equal amount of music (and alternative worship techniques i.e. drama, video, etc.) […]
Guess What Has Not Changed?
Perhaps the most difficult problem in dealing with a postmodern culture is defining our terms. I doubt that a generation has ever been so flexible with language as this one. One hundred years ago W.H. Griffith Thomas, combating German Rationalism, said, “We cannot in any degree be sure of the thought unless we can be […]