“Church Growth” has become the byword for evangelism everywhere today. The Church Growth model is almost universally applied, regardless of theology or denomination. All church activity is measured in Church Growth categories. The Church Growth model for evangelism involves the…
Tag: emerging/emergent
Emergence
Fads have become the engines that drive culture in the 21st Century. Corporations chase fads in order to profit from them in various ways. Corporations also create fads as a means of marketing their products. The ideal marketing program is…
Degenerent Orthodoxy
About the book, Generous Orthodoxy, by Brian McLaren. Tim Challies’ review of this book in December, 2004, is worth reading. According to the site www.generousorthodoxy.net, this is another instance of what is known as “Progressive Christianity,” formerly known as Liberalism.…
Root & Fruit
Scot McKnight writes in a Christianity Today article, Five Streams of the Emerging Church, “the emerging movement is radically Reformed. It turns its chastened epistemology against itself, saying, ‘This is what I believe, but I could be wrong. What do…
Why Men Hate Going To Church
I just finished reading “Why Men Hate Going to Church.” Murrow’s book was very hopeful, until I finished it. He has put his finger on a real problem — the feminization of Christianity. But the problem is even wider, it…
Born or Made?
From a Christian perspective it doesn’t matter whether homosexual orientation is genetic or learned. Rather, there are only two considerations pertinent to the issue of sin—any sin: 1) Can it be forgiven? And 2) is the sinner repentant? Being a Christian requires that each question be answered with an unqualified yes.