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re-post from 29 August 2007 on the old HB.
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Thanks to a link by Justin Taylor I read an article by Nancy Morganthaler this morning that is disturbing on so many levels I hardly know where to begin.
re-post from 17 May 2007 on the old HB
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One of our students, Mark Vander Pol recently pointed us all at WSC to a a wiki page titled, “How to Avoid Uncomfortable Conversations About Religion.” Read the rest of this entry »
Donald John MacLean publishes the James Durham Thesis where he has been surveying the arguments for the free or well-meant offer of the gospel. The latest post is on one of my favorites, Johannes Wollebius.
…without Losing the Reached. From yesterday’s URC student lunch on campus at Westminster Seminary California. Thanks to Pastor Stephen Donovan at Escondido URC for recording the session.
As I argued at the WSC faculty conference “Missional and Reformed” the Reformed Churches have a sense of “mission.” We haven’t always been faithful to it and the Reformed understanding of the church’s mission is not that of the “missional” movement, especially as defined by the emerging and emergent churches. Read the rest of this entry »
Okay, I know the “Day of the Week is for…” thing is getting tired but so am I and I couldn’t think of anything more clever.
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I’m working through some of the questions that were submitted to the WSC Missional AND Reformed Conference. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday Pastor Hyde forwarded The Trumpet, an informal missions newsletter from Cornerstone URC in Hudsonville, MI. If you would like to receive the newsletter, contact: Read the rest of this entry »
The conference has gone really quickly.
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The last plenary speaker is Julius Kim. “Mission and Missions: Evangelism in the 21st Century.”
He opens with the story of an electronic translator that translated “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” as “the whiskey is stronger than the beef.”! Context is important.
More and more our hearers are quite hostile to the Christian message. They have worldviews that are no longer influenced by the Judeo-Christian worldview. Religious pluralism. The loss of the religious canopy (Peter Berger). People are not tabula rasa. They have worldviews that conflict with some older (evangelical) approaches to evangelism. They assume too much or things that are no longer true. Read the rest of this entry »
But there’s still room for you.
Chuck Tedrick, who is in charge of the event, says that last year we had to turn away some who didn’t register in advance. Advance registration closes Friday (the conference begins Fri evening) but you shouldn’t wait that long to try to register. Click on the banner above and that will take you to the registration page.
Spent an encouraging evening with a enthusiastic group of young people at Pastor Sawtelle’s house. Over dinner we discussed the challenges of planting Reformed Churches. We agreed that whatever we do we need to be strategic, we need to be authentic, and we need to be confessional. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s a foot race to the annual faculty conference and this year should be no exception. If you’re wondering about what all the talk about a “missional” church is and what to think of it, this is the conference for you. Bob Godfrey, Mike Horton, Hywel jones, Julius Kim, Joel Kim, and I will be addressing this topic and other related topics. Does God have a mission? Did Christ have a mission? Does he still? On what mission has Christ sent his church? Whom has Christ sent on a mission?
See you in beautiful Escondido 18-19 January.
Thanks to a link by Justin Taylor I read an article by Nancy Morganthaler this morning that is disturbing on so many levels I hardly know where to begin. Read the rest of this entry »
R. Scott Clark
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