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Returning Biblical Education to the Local Church

Posted in Christian Education, Discipleship, Great Ministries, tagged , , , on January 9, 2009 | 32 Comments »

Returning Biblical
Education to the Local
 Church
 David Alan Black  
It has always intrigued me that the early Christians made such unstoppable progress despite their lack of a professionally-trained clergy. Perhaps there are some lessons we can learn from them today.
I think, for example, of a church in Hawaii that I was a part of many years ago. [...]

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Shepherding From a Card

Posted in Ecclesiology, Theology Applied, tagged , , on January 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Anyone who follows this blog or any of the previous ones, understand that I don’t pick on Rick Warren. For the most part he seems to be nice guy who I differ with on some issues, but mostly on ecclesiology. I don’t think he is a false teacher/prophet. I think he understands and articulates the [...]

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My Move Towards Simple….

Posted in Ecclesiology, tagged , on January 4, 2009 | 25 Comments »

One of the biggest transition that I have wrestled through for the last 1.5 years is that of how to do church and is there a correct way? I am not convinced of “the” correct way. As Joe Miller says “the bible is really silent on how the church should function”. I think I agree [...]

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Race Relations And Unity

Posted in African American Perspective, Blogging, Christian Living, Ecclesiology, Race Issues, Racial Reconciliation, tagged , , , on December 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »

 
My good brother CJ at Christ My Rightouesness is doing a series called “Race Relations and Unity. So far there are three posts up.
The Cross and Racial Reconciliation : Jews and Gentiles in Christ  by Kehpa
Kingdom of Men or Kingdom of God: How Your View of Diversity Defines Your Kingdom by Lionel Woods (AKA Hot Chocolate)
Love is [...]

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I Want To Apolgize To The Black Church

Posted in African American Perspective, Christian Living, Current Issues, Ecclesiology, Race Issues, Racial Reconciliation, tagged , , on December 12, 2008 | 31 Comments »

Here are a list of things I apologize for. This is  to the Black Church, the next will be to the Charismatic Church and then the Emergent Church. I want you to read this carefully.
1. I am sorry that I thought your hermeneutic was inferior!
2. I am sorry that I mocked you!
3. I am sorry [...]

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Sola Scriptura… An Irrelevant Doctrine Today?

Posted in Current Issues, Ecclesiology, Reformed Perspective, Studying the Scriptures, tagged , , on December 12, 2008 | 63 Comments »

Here is how we would define Sola Scriptura:
The phrase sola scripturais from the Latin: sola having the idea of “alone,” “ground,” “base,” and the word scriptura meaning “writings” – referring to the Scriptures. Sola scriptura means that Scripture alone is authoritative for the faith and practice of the Christian. The Bible is complete, authoritative, and [...]

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3 Reasons Why I Am Not Convinced By The Expository Preaching Arguement

Posted in Christian Education, Church Leadership, Ecclesiology, Sermons, Theology Applied, tagged , , on December 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »

There is an argument that goes something like this:
There are two reasons why this kind of speaking in the church is so crucial. One is that the subject matter is infinitely important. There is no other organization on earth that deals in matters of eternal life and eternal death—matters about God and his Son and [...]

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Real Questions For Pastors

Posted in Church Leadership, Current Issues, Ecclesiology, tagged , , on December 8, 2008 | 23 Comments »

This is not a post to minimize or degrade the work of a Pastor. At all! But it is a genuine post about things I wrestle with. Especially as of lately (6 months or so maybe 9 months). As I struggle through what it means to be a Christian, how I am to live as [...]

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Sam’s Club or Church Family?

Posted in Christian Living, Ecclesiology, tagged , , on December 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Check Alan’s Post here. I have really experienced this personally so I wanted to get your thoughts on it! I am reposting it all from www.alanknox.net . I believe we talk about Biblical Community alot because it is fadish! We like the sound of community but we really don’t want to live it. And like [...]

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From Purate to Steak Dinners and how Pastors Can Help!

Posted in Ecclesiology, Theology Applied, tagged on December 1, 2008 | 41 Comments »

First:

Then…

Finally:

The problem is our modern preaching methods leave the majority of the people in the first picture.
1.You see initially a Christian is like a baby who needs his/her food purated. They have to understand that Christ in the metanarrative of the scripture, that God’s plan was always the Gospel. They to understand the basics of [...]

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