If Christianity is to become aware of what it is, we must abandon the pastoral church which takes care of people, which is the usual form of the Western church. Instead, we have to call to life a Christian community church. Either we set about this church reform by ourselves, or it will be forced [...]
I found this short exchange between Andrew Jones and Brian McLaren to be quite helpful. If there is one weakness I see in the Emergent movement it is an underdeveloped ecclesiology. I hear TSK pushing Brian out on this point in this brief conversation.
Amidst the disillusionment with the establishment church, in the prophetic challenge to the [...]
“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:11
“The Church, the House of the Lord, is built upon the foundations of the faith of the Apostles and prophets.” –St. Basil of Caesarea (379)
“Through the great shepherd of thy flock, Jesus Christ [...]
It was heartening to see the Southern Baptists changing their position on global warming. The story that broke on Monday reports that forty-six influential members of the Southern Baptist Convention, including three of its past four presidents, criticized their denomination for being “too timid” in confronting global warming. It is encouraging to see the Church able to change, [...]
In a number of settings recently at SMC, I have been asked about vision for church as a missional community (I am particularly thinking of Melissa’s questions). I feel like I have not yet done justice to answering these questions. It involves a radical re-imagining of church. It doesn’t mean we change the center from historic [...]
“To read deeply in history is to cease being Protestant.”
Cardinal John Henry Newman, himself a famous convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism
I’m pretty sure I have ceased to be Protestant (to the extent that I ever was). As a good Evangelical, I grew up with a fairly under-developed ecclesiology (H/T J.I. Packer for the “stunted ecclesiology” [...]
Here is an excerpt from a story in the most recent issue of Christianity Today. The article is entitled…
The Future Lies in the Past
Why evangelicals are connecting with the early church as they move into the 21st century.
From Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, and living, practicing monks and nuns, they must learn both the strengths and the [...]
Thomas Nelson is publishing the first ever Orthodox Study Bible. Here is the way Amazon presents this Bible:
The FIRST EVER Orthodox Study Bible presents the Bible of the early church and the church of the early Bible.
Orthodox Christianity is the face of ancient Christianity to the modern world and embraces the second largest body of [...]
Someone shared a story with me this week about some young men who had been shunned by their Beachy Amish church. They were shunned not for some sexual sin or for any other hedonistic indulgence. It actually is quite different than that. I heard the story second hand, so I can only relate the gist [...]
The Eucharist is the sacrament of unity. It makes us into one body. The apostle Paul writes, “As there is one loaf, so we, although there are many of us, are one single body, for we all share in the one loaf” (1 Corinthians 10:17).
The presence of Jesus among us and in the gifts of [...]
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