Analyzing Christianity
Unchurched: Some of Lee Strobel’s Best Friends
Today, let’s look at Lee Strobel’s totally real atheist friends — and how his own words completely destroy that claim.
Analyzing Christianity
Unchurched: The Coin Lee Strobel Offers
Hi and welcome back! Let’s turn now to an important idea in Lee Strobel’s 1993 book, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. A big part of the book involves Lee Strobel’s sales strategies for Christian flocks. And a big part of his suggestions there involve Christians creating a Read more
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Unchurched: Friendship Evangelism, Lee Strobel Style
Yesterday, I offered you an overview of the personal-level strategy he suggests, friendship evangelism. Today, I want to show you Lee Strobel’s absolutely callous and blatantly opportunistic twist on that old, old strategy.
Analyzing Christianity
Unchurched: An Overview of Friendship Evangelism
Today, I’ll show you what friendship evangelism is — and what lies its practitioners tell themselves to justify inflicting it on others.
Analyzing Christianity
Unchurched: Lee Strobel’s Action Plan (Doesn’t Work)
In Unchurched, Lee Strobel sought to teach his tribe about those strange space aliens who weren’t part of church culture. More than that, even, he claimed to offer the tribe an ‘action plan’ for persuading those space aliens to join their churches. Today, let’s see exactly what this ‘action plan’ involves — and then consider its effectiveness.
SBC Watching
How J.D. Greear’s ‘Evangelism Ethos’ Is Going For the SBC
Hi and welcome back! Today, our presses got stopped cold by some breaking news from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It seems that last year, they suffered their single worst drop in membership in a century! The news follows the denomination’s struggles with money, an ongoing sex abuse scandal, constant Read more
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The Confession of Jane Roe (Highlights the Lies Told by Anti-Abortion Crusaders)
Today, I want to show you a recent story highlighting evangelicals’ dishonesty. Norma McCorvey, the ‘Jane Roe’ of the entire Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Case, has confessed that evangelicals bribed her to become an anti-abortion crusader.
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Promise and Peril: Lyman Stone’s galaxy-brained solutions to decline
Yesterday, we examined a big report by conservative culture warrior Lyman Stone on behalf of American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He had a lot of things to say about the decline of Christianity in America, and I detected a constant theme of fearmongering and potential exaggeration throughout his work. We’ve already covered what his assertions are. Now, here’s my assertion: Lyman Stone needs his target audience to be scared enough to buy his product, because ordinarily they’d recognize what a bad idea that’d be.
Analyzing Christianity
Promise and Peril: A Meta-Report on Christianity’s Decline
Hi and welcome back! A few days ago, a conservative think tank offered up a meta-report on Christianity’s continuing decline. The report, called ‘Promise and Peril,’ also seeks solutions to hopefully reverse that decline. I read it today and a bunch of stuff jumped out at me. Today, I’ll show you Read more
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Steve Timmis’ rise and fall (reveals a serious problem in Christianity)
The more seriously Christians take their ideology, the more dangerous a malignant leader becomes to them. One prime example of these rules could well be what just happened in Acts 29, a huge Christian church-planting business. Their leader, Steve Timmis, just lost his job there. And he lost it by being, apparently, a grade-A jerkweed. Today, let’s check out Acts 29 and see what red flags Steve Timmis might have been waving there long before his situation came to a crisis point.