Apr
19
2010
Worth a Look 4.19.10
Chuck Lawless on seven sure-fire ways to blow up a church. Here are the first three:
- Begin my ministry as a teacher and refuse to be a learner.
- Assume that the “honeymoon period” as a church leader is the time to make as many changes as possible.
- Expect to fix everything overnight.
The audio and video from the Wheaton College Conference, Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N.T. Wright is now online. I’m looking forward to Kevin Vanhoozer’s address, “Wrighting the Wrongs of the Reformation? The State of the Union with Christ in St. Paul and in Protestant Soteriology.”
Dan Kimball fills us in on a recent discussion about the dichotomy between social justice and evangelism:
If the church only focuses on social justice – and we aren’t passionate about new disciples being made.. will the church shrink as we die off? And then there won’t be as many Christians to even focus on social justice to then help people? Without focusing on evangelism and new disciples being made, there won’t be the strength of number of Christians to focus on social justice in the future. I think we need to redefine what evangelism is in terms of how we go about it. I think some of the pendulum swing is that we haven’t be rethinking forms of evangelism (through words). So the older non-relational, overly reductionist ways grew embarrassing and emerging generations didn’t want to be associated with those forms (understandably so). But we now need to reclaim the urgency of evangelism, but doing so in ways that speaks to our culture.
I thought this story was fascinating. Could it be a time traveler caught in a museum photo?
The man with what appears to be very modern sunglasses seems to be wearing a stamped T-shirt with a nice sweater, all the while holding a portable compact camera! Internet people reached to the obvious conclusion: it’s a time traveller caught on camera on 1940! Finally, we have proof!