Before “everything must change”
Colin Hansen on an issue that’s constantly coming up here: the relationship of the gospel to social issues.
If Christians today want to turn the world upside down, then we must preach
Theology
Emphasizing both sides of the gospel
My experience is that these individual and corporate aspects of the gospel do not live in easy harmony with one another in our preaching and church bodies. In fact, many communicators today deliberately
Applying the gospel
Kathy Keller on how the gospel becomes operational in our lives:
I once likened…the preaching of the Gospel or the understanding of grace (choose the jargon you like best), to the coin
Carson on social justice and the gospel
D.A. Carson spoke last week on some trends within the church, including this one (via):
Don said that the Gospel plus caring for the poor was an inseparable couplet. He cautioned that
Stetzer and Sweet on the emerging church
Ed Stetzer has written a good piece on the emerging church from a missiological perspective. I appreciate Ed’s approach. It’s well researched. Ed is honest, but he doesn’t appear to