Apologetics (Page 4)
How Not To Engage your Community
There are lots of little articles flying around the ‘blogosphere’ on how to be more ‘missional’ etc. Some of them are helpful and some of them are breathtakingly hilarious. Here are some of my tips of how not to engage ‘missionally’ on a housing scheme. Remember, it’s just for fun! 1. Sit in the front garden and invite the…
Gospel v Social Justice: 1 minute answer
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Effective Discipleship For a Non Reading Generation
Great little post here on community-shaped discipleship in youth work by Josh Cousineau. He sets up 2 models of discipleship we might employ in our youth work; 1) giving them a chapter of a good book to read and discussing it together the next week, or 2) living life together in community, allowing…
Does social action lead us away from the gospel?
Very often I am asked what my ‘position’ is on social justice and the gospel. Usually, I will feign a quizzical look before asking said person, ‘what do you mean by that?’ Generally, what they mean is how do I balance ‘loving people and providing for their needs over…
‘My purpose is not to convert you’ – not evangelising people of other faiths
I found this great little article online recently. Read it because there is a lot of nonsense out there at the moment about not ‘pushing’ our faith onto people (which I agree with) but confusing that with not…
Do Christians get on your nerves?
This was a survey done by Ed Stetzer some time ago. One question: Is it me or does he really fumble the open invitation presented by the interviewer to explain why Jesus is the only way to salvation? I’m not sure. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wAIpT-5-Jw&feature=related]
London’s Burning – A Biblical View
Every single newspaper is full of headlines about the riots that started in London and are now spreading to other cities in the UK. There is much hand wringing and political point scoring going on. The Left wingers are using it as an opportunity to disparage the government cuts (conveniently…
Creation Concerns
1. Interesting stuff here from Challies assessing Al Mohler’s presentation of why he is a literal, 6 day creationist. 2. Should Christians embrace evolution? Book review here, again from Challies. 3. Here is John Sailhamer’s position, held by John Piper amongst others. Have fun!
How well do we listen?
By and large Christians like to speak. They have got something of eternal significance to say after all. Many of us are poor listeners. Many Christians don’t have many non Christian friends (or any come to that). They think they do. But they don’t. If you have been a believer for any length of time, count the number of genuine non Christian friends you have.…
Are people really going to hell?
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