From a footnote in Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: I am unaware of any contest for “worst expression ever added to the church’s vocabulary”. If there were such a contest, however, my nomination would be this: reaching people for Christ. This ambiguous expression (which never appears in Scripture) is redolent with positive connotative content, whle …
"Grace dismantles your confidence in you, while it gives you more hope and courage than you have ever had." – Paul David Tripp, Twitter post via Of First Importance
Dan Phillips writes about church membership covenants at Pyromaniacs. As he considers the contrast between what could be termed low expectation and high expectation covenants he also notes a missing aspect of the whole issue: what the church leaders should be covenanting with the membership. He asks: Where is the elder-board’s (or whoever’s) list of …
In the book ‘Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns’, T. David Gordon questions why being ‘contemporary’ has become the great aim of segments of the present day church, when that aim that has never been shared by any previous generation of the church. Is there a good reason why Johnny and this present generation must junk …
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