Gone fishing
This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”
I’m taking a summer break from DyingChurch.com while I work on a writing project. See you in September.
Why theocentric preaching isn’t as boring as it sounds
I first got interested in theocentric preaching when I realized how much anthropocentric preaching I've done, and how awful it really is.
We were set up. Two years ago I attended
Telling the story of God
Sidney Greidanus has written a few books that touch on the challenge of theocentric preaching. In The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text, he argues that the Bible's purpose is to
God is not relevant, he is the measure of relevance
From Connexions:
Indeed I'd suggest that the fundamental malaise of contemporary Christianity is precisely its substitution of a problem-solving God for a God who is ultimate mystery.
For many people,
The danger of relevance
Lesslie Newbigin on what can go wrong when we try to be relevant:
In discussions about the contemporary mission of the Church it is often said that the Church ought to address itself