A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible. I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to [...]
Tag Archives: Emerging church
Bell on Hell
11 March, 2011 – 7:12 AM
Rob Bell has been “stirring the possum” regarding the doctrine of hell, ahead of the release of his book on the topic. Last time I checked it was #14 on Amazon’s best seller list. Rob’s a good communicator and controversy sells. Questioning hell is not a new thing for western theologians and church leaders to [...]
Emerging doubt (continued)
8 September, 2010 – 12:17 AM
I’ve always had my doubts . . . Four years ago emerging church leader, Brian McLaren, called for a five year moratorium on making pronouncements about homosexuality. He felt time was needed to consult “scholars in biblical studies, theology, ethics, psychology, genetics, sociology, and related fields.” With a year remaining on his moratorium, McLaren has [...]
Missional church made simple
18 June, 2010 – 3:54 PM
What this clip and learn from the simplicity of how it communicates. The medium is the message. But if you want to see a disciple making, church multiplication movement, you’re going to have to see beyond the picture it paints of the missional church. What’s missing? HT: Epoch
What’s in a name?
3 June, 2010 – 12:58 AM
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Romeo and Juliet “Missional” has now replaced “emerging” as THE word to use to describe your ministry, book, or conference. Search for the keyword “missional” on Amazon and you’ll find 393 books. Search for the word “Missional” [...]
How Brian McLaren lost his way
21 April, 2010 – 12:37 AM
Brian’s new kind of Christianity is quite old. And the problem is that it’s not old enough. Scott McKnight McKnight does an outstanding job of reviewing Brian McLaren’s ‘A New Kind of Christianity’ and explains why he thinks McLaren has drifted from both evangelicalism and orthodoxy and wandered wandered down the path of 19th Century [...]
The gospel of the kingdom
16 March, 2010 – 6:48 PM
John Zxerce reviews Hugh Halter’s Tangible Kingdom and raises concerns that if correct, will derail the emerging-missional movement. The part of the book that most concerned me was their understanding of the gospel. The authors claim the gospel isn’t the answer of Jesus to the sin-problem of men and women. Rather, it’s “[God's] love and [...]
Missional Fad vs Missional Movement
12 January, 2010 – 10:43 AM
Ed Stetzer wonders why so many “missional” churches are uninterested in doing global missions. Others have wondered why the emerging/missional church doesn’t do evangelism. Dan Kimball agrees that something is wrong: “For the past few years, I have been observing, listening, and asking questions about the missional movement. I have a suspicion that the missional [...]
When “missional” churches aren’t
10 January, 2010 – 2:14 AM
Ed Stetzer wonders why some missional churches don’t do global missions. It appears to me that many missional churches are missing the Great Commission in the name of being missional. That makes zero sense. I was recently told by a pastor who called himself “missional” that his church needed to pull back on their global [...]
Dan Kimball hopes he’s wrong
21 March, 2009 – 7:50 AM
For the past few years, I have been observing, listening, and asking questions about the missional movement. I have a suspicion that the missional model has not yet proven itself beyond the level of theory. Dan Kimball Dan hopes he is wrong. I think he is right. The emerging/missional church has not delivered on multiplying [...]
