Big Eva Says Out with Complementarianism, In with Anti-Fundamentalism
As the head of a major evangelical institution, Moore is very well positioned to advance this vision.
Moore is a former Southern Baptist leader and Gospel Coalition council member who is now the editor of Christianity Today magazine. The mere fact that he’s now the editor there shows something is afoot, given that Moore was historically strongly complementarian and Christianity Today has long been egalitarian. As I noted in a previous post, Moore... Continue Reading
Megachurches are Getting Even Bigger as Churches Close Across the Country
For the last several years, Liquid Church has been one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation, and a big part of its success has come through assimilating smaller, more traditional congregations. Four of its seven campuses — all in New Jersey — have come through these mergers.
“Many small churches either have disappeared around the megachurch … or they’ve created their own mission … and have figured out a way to offer alternatives to what the megachurch offers. [They’ve] made sort of their peace with the big kid on the block,” says Thumma. At the same time, megachurches that have adopted the multisite... Continue Reading
Who and How to Show Hospitality
Hospitality is an exercise of trust, patience, endurance, and wisdom. Seek these things from the Lord!
The first step to start practicing hospitality biblically is to change your mindset. Rather than thinking of hospitality as a noun, an event, a specific party, think of hospitality as a verb. The Apostle Paul in Romans 12:13 uses a hunting word: “pursue” hospitality. Chase hospitality down. Run after hospitality. Take aim and diligently follow... Continue Reading
“Sparkle Creed” Is Dim & Dull
There will always be “sparkle creeds” trying to displace more traditional creeds like the Nicene and Apostles Creed.
The progressive Protestant project of North America and Northwestern Europe is fast concluding. It abandoned orthodoxy early in the 20th century in favor of a cold modernism that rejected supernaturalism in favor of stern moral reform. That focus on science and rationality gave way to postmodern self-discovery and deconstruction, with obsession over self-identity, including race... Continue Reading
Witchcraft Sparkle for the Liberal Church
The “Sparkle Creed” is riddled with heresy rarely, if ever, so blatantly expressed in a Christian service.
In her false trinitarian creed, she makes the “rainbow spirit” an affirmation of non-binary queer theory where the triune God is blended with everything in “a gorgeous diversity.” On the contrary, to please God who is binary––separate from us––we must bear his binary image in our sexuality in maintaining the male/female distinction. The Evangelical... Continue Reading
Little Voices in the Pews
You can’t tell me that children are incapable of hearing the Word of God preached from the pulpit.
Keeping our children in church every Sunday is HARD. It is hard being the only adult able to correct and train on a weekly basis. It is hard to constantly be leaving service to discipline a toddler and continually coming back in. It is hard, but it is so worth it. There is no better... Continue Reading
The PCA’s Principle on Non-communing Members – A Halfway Covenant?
If unbaptized “members” are beyond the pale of censure, in what biblical sense are they actually members in the church?
Membership through baptism includes the privilege to warnings that are to precede ever being placed outside the church, which presupposes de facto member-status in the church. But what about unbaptized adult members of the church? How can one who has never been received into the church ever be placed outside the church for not “embracing Christ... Continue Reading
Music at the GA and the PCA
The unaided human voice is the most beautiful of all musical instruments.
Musicians, vocalists, and choirs have a secondary role, a subordinate role, not even a necessary role (we can sing acapella), what ideally should be a hidden role. They are there to support, encourage, and beautify the singing of the congregation. Recognizing that congregational singing is the divinely authorized element also should determine song selection. Does... Continue Reading
7 Ways to Blaspheme God’s Word (Part 1)
The vision of womanhood that He describes in His word is better and more lovely than any vision we can come to on our own.
My writing of this article is, at least in part, to help encourage mature and godly women within Christendom to effectively work so that this passage is no longer blasphemed and so that the Kingdom of Christ grows in ways that please the Father. But I am also writing because I want everyone in Christ’s... Continue Reading
The “Narrative” vs. the Reality of SBC ‘23
According to the narrative, abuse reforms “slowed down” while Southern Baptists reasserted the “patriarchy” by excluding female pastors.
Critics in the media are trying to weave a narrative that Southern Baptists chose their complementarian theology over abuse reform and women in ministry. That narrative is a lie. It’s also theologically and practically a false choice. We don’t have to pick between our complementarian theology and abuse reform/women in ministry. We can do it... Continue Reading
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