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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.
Seminary student Simon writes to ask about how to choose where to serve upon graduation. Read the rest of this entry »
…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.
From RBA, a study of the Tiv, a tribe of about 4 million in (mostly) central Nigeria. This study is interesting because we have had a number of Tiv students from the NKST (Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv). I’ve been greatly impressed with their seriousness of purpose and devotion to the Reformed faith.
Kevin has the details here. It’s a growing city and there are a lot of folk to reach with the law and the gospel. Pray for God’s blessing on this work.
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 »
Will Traub is an old friend (we both have roots in the RCUS) and he is a PCA MTW (Mission to the World) missionary to Germany (and now the rest of Europe it seems!). In his most recent newsletter he reports: Read the rest of this entry »
In the light of this post, I should give equal time for good news. There is a missions related website for the URCNA. It has information about URC works in Costa Rica, Honduras, India, Toronto and elsewhere.
Many thanks to Don Van Dyke, Secretary of Classis Michigan Missions Committee for letting us know about this site and the work of the committee. If you or your consistory has missions related news please send it to
donvandyke at tm.net
One more thing: pray for that God the Spirit would work through the preaching of the Word to gather his people from every nation, tongue, and tribe.
For the Q&A session of the conference we collected a great pile of questions. We weren’t able to get to them all and, in the case below, when we did it wasn’t always satisfactory, so I want to take a shot at answering some of them on Saturdays. The Lazarus Commission was there for the conference (thanks!) and he described his hopes for and disappointment with (parts of) the conference. 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 »
Hywel Jones, “Mission in a Pluralistic Age”
[- the network in the chapel crashed as and I was trying to figure out what was happening I missed the first part of Hywel's lecture.]
He discussed the modern history of immigration patterns in the US and the UK and the resulting religious pluralism that resulted. He distinguished between “plurality” and “pluralism.” The latter is a voluntary response to the fact of plurality. Pluralism is the opposite of exclusivism.
He described the rise of the some of the modern pluralistic theologies and ecumenical and universalist movements. He describes Tillich, Rahner, Kueng and the idea of “anonymous Christians.” Christ becomes redefined in universalist categories. So too for the Spirit. The idea of the “the holy” is ignored. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve spent the week getting ready for the upcoming conference: Missional AND Reformed. This post brings me to the third in this brief series which comes from my preparation for the conference.
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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