Continuing in part one of the book, Lewis furthers his assessment that church leaders are often overwhelmed at the size of this chasm detailed in the previous post. Because of that some pastors and lay leaders will in a sense see the task as impossible and running back to what Lewis calls ‘fallback methodology” as [...]
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The Church of Irresistable Influence – Part 2
Posted in Bible Teaching, Misc Books, Misc Topics, tagged Calvary Chapel, Christianity, church growth, community, Emergent Church, incarnational, missional, postmodern, Robert Lewis, The Church of Irresistable Influence on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Church of Irresistable Influence
Posted in Misc Books, Misc Topics, tagged Christianity, church growth, community, Emergent Church, incarnational, missional, postmodern, Robert Lewis, The Church of Irresistable Influence on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have a book that was given to me by someone at a garage sale called The Church of Irresistible Influence by Robert Lewis with Rob Wilkins. The book utilizes bridge building stories to discuss bridging this Great Chasm that spans between the church and the community around the church. Leveraging stories of physical chasms [...]
Theological Look at Creation – Part 3
Posted in Bible Teaching, tagged apostasy, Bible, biblical numerology, Calvary Chapel, Christianity, community, creationism, dietrich bonhoeffer, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, end times, faith, Last Days, theology on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 7 days of creation
F.W Grant, a Supreme Court Justice in the 1800s and a devote student of the Bible noted consistency in numbers in unique relationship found in Scripture. For most numbers there is both a Godly and an evil relationship. Through this discovery Grant could find in the entirety of scripture a [...]
Theological Look at Creation – Part 2
Posted in Bible Teaching, tagged apostasy, Bible, Calvary Chapel, Christianity, community, creationism, dietrich bonhoeffer, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, end times, faith, Last Days, theology on February 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2
“The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of [...]
Theological Look at Creation – Part 1
Posted in Bible Teaching, tagged apostasy, Bible, Calvary Chapel, Christianity, community, creationism, dietrich bonhoeffer, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, end times, faith, Last Days, theology on January 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A major short coming in today’s Bible teaching surrounding creation is so much time is spent on validating or proving what is contained in the creation account that the majority of Bible believing and even Bible studying Christians have never seen the value beyond the words themselves. Genesis is not a scientific book and it [...]
In the Pursuit of -ism
Posted in Misc Topics, tagged apostasy, Bible, Calvary Chapel, Christianity, community, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, end times, faith, Last Days, monasticism, neomonasticism, revival on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am part of an online community and the topic of Christian Communism came up. With the new monasticism and emphasis on community within and even without the emergent church movement it is does bring a certain discussion to the forefront. This a topic with a potential to push some unedifying buttons, yet I [...]
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