How churches lose the plot, Part IV
In this final post in the series, I want to offer some brief, practical guidelines on how to help keep a church on the rails. Each could be a post in itself, but I have no wish to try your…
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How churches lose the plot, Part III
In my last two posts, I have tried to suggest that the reasons for a church’s decline into liberalism are not always immediately doctrinal, but can actually arise out of a culture; and, by implication, the underlying story I am…
How churches lose the plot, Part III
In my last two posts, I have tried to suggest that the reasons for a church’s decline into liberalism are not always immediately doctrinal, but can actually arise out of a culture; and, by implication, the underlying story I am…
Why is British dentistry actually a good thing?
Because the Christian church in Britain will obviously never have to deal with ministries like this.
Why is British dentistry actually a good thing?
Because the Christian church in Britain will obviously never have to deal with ministries like this.
How churches lose the plot, Part II
Yesterday, I noted how the big personality can shift the church in the wrong direction. A closely related phenomenon is that of the minister who thumbs his nose at the church’s public standards of doctrine and practice, who decides that…
How churches lose the plot, Part II
Yesterday, I noted how the big personality can shift the church in the wrong direction. A closely related phenomenon is that of the minister who thumbs his nose at the church’s public standards of doctrine and practice, who decides that…
How churches lose the plot, Part I
Not all historical phenomena that manifest themselves as doctrinal are necessarily immediately doctrinal in cause or origin.’ That statement, made to me by a mentor in my field of historical theology, articulates a crucial principle, a principle that came to…
How churches lose the plot, Part I
Not all historical phenomena that manifest themselves as doctrinal are necessarily immediately doctrinal in cause or origin.’ That statement, made to me by a mentor in my field of historical theology, articulates a crucial principle, a principle that came to…
Chalmers on Government
The shadowy figure known simply as `The Librarian’ brought to my attention the following thoughts of the Scottish theologian and churchman, Thomas Chalmers, on Romans 13. In an era when it is seemingly more and more acceptable to be…