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Category Archives: Institutional Church
Discussing House Churches
JRD Kirk responded to a post by John Armstrong on the upsides and downsides of house churches. I think this is a very important discussion for the church to have. As I wrote in the comment I see house churches … Continue reading
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Self-sufficiency in church work and church planting
This is an area that I’ve wrestled with for a long time with populations far poorer (in one sense) than any we find in North America. My definition of “self-sustaining” is rather nuanced for this reason. The difficulty I tend … Continue reading
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“greater-than”, “less-than” and “equal-to” in doctrinal ascent
When it came to predestination Calvin was dogged and got the support of his city Council after they read his institutes. He broke longstanding relationships because the others no longer held to the view exactly as Calvin did. In mathematics … Continue reading
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More on Big Religion
I wrestled a lot with the term “big” but I’ll stick by it. “true” usually gets people into “correct”, Yhwh vs. Baal or Buddha and stuff like that and that isn’t where I wanted to go. The idolatry of religion … Continue reading
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Fighting in Church
Wrote this in a CRC-Voices thread on the WICO fight Conflicts are almost always multi-dimensional: A. There is the conflict over the matter itself: Is it right that women hold office in the church and minister from those offices B. … Continue reading
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Why churches so poorly encourage kingdom development of the non-churchy vocations
I wrote this responding to this post on the new CRC-Network website. Thank you for writing this (and whoever tweeted this). In my opinion this is one (among others of course) areas of the church where we have significantly failed. … Continue reading
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On Church Signs
Something I responded to from CRC-Voices I’ve got a lot of ambivalence about church signs and what usually gets put on them. You can find someone who will declare “I came into church and became a Christian because of what … Continue reading
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Church: Accessible or Counter-Cultural? Learning to love, working community
Scanned two disconnected articles this morning. One was a blog post retelling some of the events surrounding Jonathan Edwards getting kicked out of his church. I first pondered this episode when I was reading Marsden’s excellent biography of Edwards. It … Continue reading
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Redeemer tries to remod itself into Classic Central Park
Tomorrow my cluster gets together to discuss another video from Redeemer’s Renew website. This one is the campaign overview. In the first part of the video Keller talks about “movement dynamics”. This of course reminds me of when Kevin Adams … Continue reading
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What our response to Luther’s antisemitism can teach us
I wrote this responding to a blog post on a woman’s shock at discovering Luther’s antisemitism. 1. Read history. Please. This may be new to a lot of you apparently. This is hardly new information. One of the biggest blind … Continue reading →