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LET’S PLAY: 3 Circles Evangelism!
Very quickly, Scroggins recognized that he needed an evangelism method that was fast, simple, and most of all effective against his target recruitment market.
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‘Everyone needs Jesus’: When Southern Baptists misspell recruitment
In a recent Baptist Press opinion post (archive), a Southern Baptist asserts the absolute necessity of his tribe’s product—but he keeps misspelling the name of it as ‘Jesus’ and other similarly-beloved evangelical buzzwords. This post illustrates a singular truth about his end of Christianity: Southern Baptists wouldn’t be able to talk Read more
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Death is the fear that passes all understanding for evangelicals
For all too many Christians, nothing is scary as the mere idea of death. They’re terrified of dying. There’s a reason for that, of course. They seem absolutely dumbfounded when they encounter people who don’t believe Christian claims and aren’t afraid of death. Today, let’s dive into this fear and Read more
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Farewell, OnlySky
All good things come to an end. Everything changes in one way or another. That’s just how life is. That constant sense of change is why I call our humanness a situation, not a condition. At some point, humans hunted the very last mammoth. Built the last active shrine to Read more
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The newest accountability crisis in evangelicalism has dropped
Evangelicals may fluff themselves up about their dedication to accountability all they like. The truth looks far different. They actually despise accountability, and do everything they can to avoid facing it. The resulting lack of accountability is the biggest red flag about their culture, and the reason why scandals pour more Read more
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AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline
Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline. Many millions of dollars’ worth of evangelical money is concentrating on AI’s potential at the moment.
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Hypocrisy as a worldview: How evangelicals ignore their god’s direct commands
Hypocrisy is an endemic part of evangelicalism. All evangelicals are hypocrites, at least going by the official meaning of the term. In other words, they all behave in ways that run counter to the ideals they espouse. Evangelicals’ roadmaps are broken, so they cannot ever travel from Point Conversion to Read more
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Jack Hibbs predicts lots of spiritual warfare in 2024
Last time we met up, I showed you the timeline of an evangelical pastor, Jack Hibbs, who jumped on the grift wagon in the mid-2010s. Once he realized where the real money and fame was in late-stage evangelicalism, he went all in. Lately, he’s been yammering (archive) about how the flocks Read more
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Southern Baptist Frank Page can’t escape his past
Frank Page has a decades-long and well-established history of not wanting to investigate sex abuse in Southern Baptist churches or holding sex abusers fully accountable for their crimes. Then he got himself embroiled in a scandal of his own.
But never fear: Almost immediately, Page got a pastoring job in an SBC church. But the story wasn’t over.
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Jack Hibbs shows us how evangelical leaders use the culture wars
A recent editorial at Christian Post (archive) featured a sermon about spiritual warfare from a pastor named Jack Hibbs. Hibbs leads a church named Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, California. And apparently Hibbs’ congregation enjoys hearing lies out of their pastor, because he certainly provides them with a solid stream of Read more