David de Bruyn pastors New Covenant Baptist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a graduate of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Minnesota and the University of South Africa (D.Th.). Since 1999, he has presented a weekly radio program that is heard throughout much of central South Africa. He also blogs at Churches Without Chests.
The singing of psalms has all but disappeared from many congregations, unless you count the “As the Deer” chorus as a singing of a psalm.… Read More »Some Things to Consider Including in Your Worship – Singing the Psalms
In this series, I hope to highlight the benefits of certain worship practices that are sometimes missing from the free-worship traditions. I do not mean… Read More »Some Things to Consider Including in your Worship – A Call to Worship
The act of judging a foreign culture for meaning and moral value is attacked by post-modern critics as an example of bigotry. After all, what… Read More »Multiculturalism and Cultural Prejudice
One of thorniest issues facing Christian missions is the propriety and possibility of judging other cultures. Since all cultures are affected by both human depravity… Read More »Multiculturalism and Judging Culture
In a recent interview, mission leader C. Douglas McConnell was asked to name the greatest challenge facing the global evangelical missions movement today. He responded,… Read More »Multiculturalism and Contextualization
South Africa has more official languages than any other country: English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, Tswana, Sotho, Pedi, Venda, Tsonga and Swazi. These languages represent… Read More »Multiculturalism: You Might Be Surprised
Millard Erickson, in his Christian Theology, speaks of two different approaches to contemporising the message of Christianity. One is to translate the message, and the other… Read More »Translating vs. Transforming
Included in faulty ideas of what legalism is are the notions that it is interpreting Scripture literally, making applications for modern living, exhorting submission, and… Read More »Will the Real Legalist Please Stand Up? Concluding Thoughts
Christians often imbibe facile and unhelpful definitions of legalism. One of these is the idea that legalism is the act of judging the meaning cultural phenomena,… Read More »Will The Real Legalist Please Stand Up? – Judging Culture
Conservative Christians are often accused of legalism. To understand what legalism is, we must first understand what it is not. One common misconception is that… Read More »Will the Real Legalist Please Stand Up? Authority and Submission
Avoiding legalism is firstly a matter of rightly understanding what it is. To begin with, we must reject incorrect definitions of legalism. One such error… Read More »Will the Real Legalist Please Stand Up? – Application of Scripture
Conservative Christians are not strangers to the charge of legalism. Begin tinkering with the sacred cows of worship music and Christian culture, and you will… Read More »Will the Real Legalist Please Stand Up? – Introduction