He says he’s not surprised by the findings But he thinks many people believe in a metaphorical interpretation of the resurrection, rather than taking the story literally. IAN PEARSON : Many Australians, although certainly not a majority, would see Jesus as metaphorically real, or his resurrection as metaphorically real, but would expect that the bones of Jesus would be found in Palestine.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
What does success look like grandpa?
10 April, 2009 – 2:22 AM
Addition: starting a new church. Reproduction: a new church starts a new church. Multiplication: a new church starts a new church starts a new church. Movement: when churches starting churches becomes the norm. The size or shape of the new churches is unimportant. As long as they can multiply disciples and new churches, the job [...]
Spot the difference
7 April, 2009 – 3:18 AM
Observing Neil Cole and Ed Young Jr. is a study in contrasts. The soft-spoken Cole quietly entered the vacant sanctuary wh ere we were meeting. He lingered in the back for a while before anyone realized he had arrived. By contrast, Young burst into the room with a shout—every head turned. The sanctuary was immediately electrified. [...]
The god of no dogmas
5 April, 2009 – 4:08 PM
The god of whom no dogmas are believed is a mere shadow. He will not produce that fear of the Lord in which wisdom begins and therefore will not produce that love in which it is consumated…. There is in the minimal religion nothing that can convince, convert, or (in the higher sense) console; nothing [...]
Has it come to this?
5 April, 2009 – 2:45 AM
Sydney shows that life is now resembling reality TV , and not vice versa: OUTRAGE is growing over tales of sick voyeurism at the scene of this heartbreaking crash at Burwood, where a young mum lost her life this week. … Rescue workers have told The Daily Telegraph Online, the phenomenon is becoming all too common at accident scenes around Sydney… Dean Ivory, who lives directly opposite the crash scene, was one of the few to assist….
When is it right to leave your church?
3 April, 2009 – 11:07 PM
Wall Street Journal Columnist, Fred Barnes tells the story of why he and his wife left their church. In 2007, my wife Barbara and I left The Falls Church, which we had happily attended from the time we became Christians a quarter-century ago. It’s a 277-year-old church in northern Virginia well-known for its popular preacher, [...]
Al vs Ary
3 April, 2009 – 2:27 AM
The Church as a missionary or missional movement is called to carry on the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. … The Church, in its very essence, is a missionary or apostolic movement with a mandate to take the good news of Jesus to world.
