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Why evangelicals lean so hard on ‘Original Christianity’
Tim Keller’s claims about ‘original Christianity’ are quite common in his end of the religion. Here’s why.
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‘Bless Every Home:’ Personal Evangelism Done Super-Creepy
On the way minus side, this initiative could result in someone getting stalked. But there is at least a plus side: The flocks still hate personal evangelism. An app that prods and pushes them to do stuff won’t make them like it more.
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Barna Group Sure Hopes Gen Z Can Rescue Evangelicalism
Evangelical leaders’ attention was always fated to shift from Millennials to Gen Z. Millennials utterly failed to secure a turnaround in the tribe’s fortunes. So now those leaders look to Gen Z to save their bacon.
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Intentional Ministries: When Congregations Are Pastors’ Worst Problem
The natural inclinations of awful people tend to be awful. And such people can make an innocent visit to a neighborhood church into a horror story those guests will remember for years.
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Before Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Fused Together (LSP #218)
The evangelicals I knew back then thought fundamentalists were dangerous zealots and wingnuts who’d missed the entire point of Christianity in their mad dash to theological super-correctness. Meanwhile, fundamentalists thought evangelicals were lukewarm weaklings who couldn’t handle the real deal of TRUE CHRISTIANITY™ — and thus would fold and accept the Mark of the Beast the moment the Endtimes began in earnest.
The Games We Play
Evangelical Men’s Impossible Dream of Marriage
What these men want in marriage isn’t completely unreasonable. So (I wondered) why can’t they find it?
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The Flocks Still Hate Evangelism: Reset Button Edition
Something has to give, when it comes to panicking businesses in decline. They must pick something to cherish and do it right. Sometimes that’ll mean forging ahead with a new customer base they can actually please and which can actually support them as a business. Other times, it’ll mean taking extra-good care of their existing customers. And evangelicals haven’t yet figured out where to land there.
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Evangelical vaccine denialists latch onto 666 hysteria
It’s very easy for Christians to ignore Jesus’ direct orders, and even easier to latch onto conspiracy theories about the number 666.
Codex Disbelievium
How C.S. Lewis finished the hell puzzle in “The Great Divorce”
make informed decisions about their own fates. Not even his extra-imaginary imaginary god can make that happen for him.
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Bethlehem Church: Interpreting Churches’ Success Claims
Hi and welcome back! Recently, the news site of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had a major victory to report: a megachurch in a small town in Georgia reported 114 baptisms on one Sunday. That’s a pretty big boast, considering the SBC’s in a major decline and has been for Read more