Saturday Links
Links for your weekend reading:
2015 is the new 1968. And I’m glad to be right here, right now, with you, for the most radical cause in history.
Rethinking Conversion in Context
Like the former missionaries, we must reconfigure our understanding and expectation of how people undergo gospel change and how disciples are made. We must be more open to “process conversions” while also guiding that process toward full commitment to Jesus as Lord.
I believe we are now living in a culture of Post-Christendom. While it may be the death of Christendom, I believe it is also the rebirth of Christianity.
What Do You Think Happened to the Emerging Church?
What happened to the emerging church? Let me give you a few reasons why I think it has passed.
The Life of the Mind for Knowing God
The Bible is not ambiguous about the fact that Christians are to be serious studiers.
When to Cover, When to Confront
Love, for the sake of the friendship, covers, ignores, blows off, makes light of, a multitude of sins when those sins are of the nature of a shortcoming. But the same love will risk the friendship with a bold rebuke when the behavior contradicts sound doctrine, when it denies the gospel, when it misrepresents the magnificence of Christ as something ugly and inhumane.
When some of us traditionalist Christians were moved by the pictures we saw of gay couples, or moved by the real-life visits with our gay friends, I think this is part of what we were feeling. We were wanting our friends not to be lonely and alienated from love, and we were wanting them to keep hoping and searching for Love Himself.
