I am in Wake Forest, North Carolina this week at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary teaching a doctoral seminar on contemporary issues facing the Church. So, I’ve been a little slack in my blogging this week. In fact, I’m taking a break from grading papers to write this brief post. I […]
The missiology necessary to advance the gospel in a post-Christianized context is not the same as the missiology that brought us to a Christianized context. Certainly, this does not mean a complete overhaul, but rather a building upon that which has gone before. Some things must change while we return […]
Missiology of the Moment
Liberal theological traditions have moved away from a satanology of the devil being an actual being to simply a personification of evil. Among Episcopal Church leaders, for example, the discussion of evil in the world is commonplace; a conversation about the devil is a rarity. One of the headlines making […]
Deleting the Devil
It was tragic that the building was destroyed. “What are you and the church going to do now,” the reporter asks the pastor. “We will carry on. The church is the people, not the building.” The atmosphere of the meeting was solemn, but joyful. “Our agency does not have the […]
Theology, the Last Resort
The following is the second-part of a two-part series I started last week. As a fourth generation Baptist of the Southern Tribe, I’m all about cooperation–cooperation with those of my Tribe and cooperation with like-minded evangelicals (a.k.a. Great Commission Christians) of other Tribes. Such cooperation is with other churches and […]
Cooperation Not Codependency
If the cultural revolutions of our age are unprecedented, then we should not be surprised that what is needed is a systemic missiological shift. Not a theological shift from “the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3, ESV), but a return to a more apostolic […]
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