Engage

The Christian community has a long and unfortunate history of building walls to separate themselves from the outside world. "We don't go to movies." "We don't read those types of books." "We don't talk to those types of people." Sometimes it looks small, a verbal warning, a silent resignation from the culture. Other times it's big …

Three Unorthodox Beliefs Held by the Majority of Professing Christians

One of the resources from Ligonier Ministries that I have grown most appreciative of is their State of Theology survey. They released the first one in 2014, and just recently released the findings from their 2016 survey of 3,000 professing Christians in America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJcy4dO9ngg Out of the 47 questions asked, these are the three results that …

Rethinking Worship Wars

To focus your attention on secondary issues is certainly a dangerous error, however it is equally dangerous to label primary issues as secondary. Labelling these items as such tends to lower our view of them to a level where we begin to adapt and change what was never intended to be changed. Worship for all intents …