Prophecy fulfills a very important role in evangelical culture, one that they can’t bear to lose even if it means countless failures and humiliations. They’d rather keep prophesying than stop and miss out on those many benefits.
It’s a pity that Lifeway’s Bible studies are so short and perfunctory; I’d love to see them even attempt to explain their whackadoodle reasoning process for any of them, but especially this one.
Misplaced trust makes Christians say “Oh no, my pastor would never do that!” It grants pastors a shield they do not deserve.
The Moral Argument is only getting more popular with time. But it’s a terrible argument, and here’s why.
Confirmation bias is a helluva drug.
Usually, when we talk about apologetics we’re talking about Christians’ attempts to make the existence of their god seem less ludicrous. But today, we have a rare treat: an evangelical named Thaddeus Williams is going to try to make the existence of a soul sound less ludicrous. And he does Read more
Correct beliefs do not correlate with rule-following, no matter how hard fervent evangelicals insist otherwise.
Every so often, I get a stunning reminder about exactly why evangelicals’ decline won’t end any time soon. This was one of those times. A recent opinion post by a pastor in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), Dave Miller, lays out what he thinks is “wrong with [them].” He says Read more
If Jesus himself told them in prayer not to take the assignment, then what kind of Christian would the request-maker be to try to jump that chain of command?
Evangelism, like hard sales and pickup artistry, is a numbers game more than anything else.