If you aren’t at least somewhat familiar with the recent controversy over T. D. Jakes, James MacDonald, Mark Driscoll, and the Elephant Room, you’ve probably… Read More »Elephant Room 2, Biblicism, and the Importance of Tradition
In order to understand the driving impulses behind the North American evangelical missional church movement and its impact on worship, I will begin with a… Read More »A Brief History of the Missional Church Movement
“The new Calvinists constantly extol the Puritans, but they do not want to worship or live as they did. One of the vaunted new conferences… Read More »A Well-Known Calvinist Repudiates the Charismaticism and Worldly Worship of "New Calvinism."
This series is available in booklet format. Audio versions: Biblical Contextualization The First Principles of the Gospel Responsibility and Sovereignty in Evangelism The Power of… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel – Full Series
In Acts 17 we have the account of three cities, each of which has very different kinds of people, and we read a record of… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 2 – Defining Biblical Contextualization
There is a popular thought today in evangelicalism that says that if we as Christians are going to reach unbelievers around us, we need to… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 1 – Introduction