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environment evangelicalism
Mar 12, 2012

Evangelicals and the environment

I remember the first "earth day" in the seventies and how the Christians in my circles mocked the idea. I was living in Hong Kong at the time, a relatively poor dirty place at the time that seemed to care little about the environment. Then came earth day where we could think about saving the earth and it was well, not so popular among evangelicals.


Reflecting back on that and the lack of care that...
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evangelicalism personal growth
Mar 10, 2012

Where have all the demons gone?

I think demons have abandoned America. After all we are too sophisticated for demons. As proof, how often do you hear them talked about? Or your pastor talk about them? Maybe CS Lewis tricked us with his Screwtape letter stuff. Seriously, where are they? I see them in the majority world but this is with largely uneducated people. We are too educated for such thinking. So either they have abandoned...
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evangelicalism personal growth
Mar 10, 2012

Where have all the demons gone?

I think demons have abandoned America. After all we are too sophisticated for demons. As proof, how often do you hear them talked about? Or your pastor talk about them? Maybe CS Lewis tricked us with his Screwtape letter stuff. Seriously, where are they? I see them in the majority world but this is with largely uneducated people. We are too educated for such thinking. So either they have abandoned...
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critical thinking evangelicalism
Mar 09, 2012

Preaching that tells or preaching that helps people think like Christ thinks

There is a real distinction between preaching that tells people what to do and how to do it and preaching that unpacks the text and helps people understand how to apply it in their context. The first tells people what to think while the second helps people evaluate their lives against Scripture and make personal decisions on the basis of the truth that they know.


We have a real need to help people think...
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church health evangelicalism
Mar 08, 2012

Things Satan likes about the church


  1. When we keep everyone programmed up in church so they don't bother their friends or community with the gospel.
  2. When we have so many boards and committees that it takes forever to get anything done or decided.
  3. When we hire people to do ministry so that others don't get trained or released into meaningful ministry
  4. When we preach self help sermons that don't go to the heart of the Gospel
  5. When we water...
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church health evangelicalism
Mar 08, 2012

Things Satan likes about the church


  1. When we keep everyone programmed up in church so they don't bother their friends or community with the gospel.
  2. When we have so many boards and committees that it takes forever to get anything done or decided.
  3. When we hire people to do ministry so that others don't get trained or released into meaningful ministry
  4. When we preach self help sermons that don't go to the heart of the Gospel
  5. When we water...
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church leadership church planting
Mar 05, 2012

Unleashing our lay people and overcoming the dysfunction of professional ministry

I believe that one of the five dysfunctions of the church is that of professional ministry where we hire specialists to do the work of ministry rather than to equip others to do ministry. This professionalism is even more interesting in that the movement I am a part of (the EFCA) and sister denominations came out of lay led movements in the eighteen hundreds.


The free church movement came out of an...
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