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Showing posts with label Witnessing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Witnessing. Show all posts
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Star Trek, Salvation and Sermons
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Labels:
Authenticity
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Witnessing
Sunday, September 04, 2016
Inbox: Some Sound Advice
A request for prayer about an upcoming
opportunity with unsaved relatives generates the following response from
a sibling:
“What’s really weird about your note is that apparently [noted evangelist who is much better than I am at such things] wasn’t invited to dinner.Go figure.I guess I’m left to understand that his particular set of attributes and skills are not wanted/needed and the Lord has other plans in mind for the time that require different abilities.”
Okay. Well then. Don’t stop on my account.
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Inbox
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Prayer
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Witnessing
Tuesday, August 09, 2016
Programming or Persuasion?
My father loved my
mother and vice versa. They were not perfect — nobody is — but they
consistently modeled their Christian faith for their children. As a result, I
and my siblings grew up conscious there was at least one worldview out there
that produced a positive real-life outcome for those who held it.
Some people think that’s
programming.
Labels:
Children
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Memory
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Witnessing
Thursday, July 07, 2016
Contributory Negligence
He’s right. Truth remains true no matter
whether anyone believes it. God found fault with the people. Let God be true though everyone were a liar. Etc., etc.
Truth also remains truth no matter who says
it. God has communicated truth through donkeys, little foreign slave girls, and even corrupt, pseudo-religious political animals like Caiaphas.
Everyone has an obligation before God to
identify truth and respond to it regardless of how that truth may be packaged.
The personal failings of the messenger do not excuse us from this obligation.
Labels:
Christian Testimony
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Stefan Molyneux
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Truth
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Witnessing
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Marketing Jesus
This article about effectively
marketing the church was forwarded to me by a reader along with a two-word review: “fantastically
misguided”.
“Misguided” is a good
way to put it. I think Cameron and Tara from Christ & Pop Culture are well-intentioned. They contend
that Jesus must be the focus of all attempts to promote
a church and that “church marketing strategies applied without guidance from
Scripture undermine the kingdom of God by causing Christians to alter their
identities”.
So with Christ as the focus and scripture
for guidance, what could go wrong? Lots, it seems.
Labels:
Church
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Testimony
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Witnessing
Sunday, March 20, 2016
True Revolutionaries
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Labels:
Relativism
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Truth
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Witnessing
Saturday, March 19, 2016
The Trouble with the Truth
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Labels:
Relativism
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Truth
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Witnessing
Thursday, August 27, 2015
The Dangerous Faith
Other than while acting in the service of
governments, real Christians don’t generally use guns, knives or bombs on our
fellow men. We’re not looking to conquer the world by force of arms. Instead,
we seek to persuade men and women of the truth of what we believe.
In theory, persuasion is a fairly
inoffensive process compared to, say, armed invasion. Still, some people
respond to the Christian faith with outright hostility. Others are more laid
back, a subject we touched on in a post a few days ago.
But as Immanuel Can notes in the comments,
our dealings with mellow agnostics are just as much “warfare” as when we engage
with hostiles, and may be perceived as threatening even when the message is graciously and lovingly delivered.
Labels:
Evangelism
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Faith
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Witnessing
Monday, April 27, 2015
Star Trek, Salvation and Sermons
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Labels:
Authenticity
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Witnessing
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
The End of Evangelism
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Labels:
Gospel
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Witnessing
Friday, August 29, 2014
Too Hot to Handle: Why I Don’t Share My Faith
The most recent version of this post is available here.
Labels:
Evangelism
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Obedience
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Too Hot to Handle
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Witnessing
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