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Category Archives: Younger Evangelicals
Elentics and the Holy Spirit
All who care about reaching others with the goodnews of salvation must care about elentics Continue reading
Posted in Disciple-making, Discipleship, Holy Spirit, Missions, Salvation, Sin, Witness, Younger Evangelicals
Tagged conviction, Guilt, Holy Spirit, shame
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A painful and humbling truth
A painful and humbling truth we must hear… Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Church growth, Church Leadership, Evangelicals, Evangelism, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Market-Driven Churches, Mega Church, Salvation, Seeker Services, Seeking God, Wisdom, Witness, Younger Evangelicals
Tagged Gospel, Gospel outreach, Market-Driven Churches, people don't want God, Seeker services, Truth from God
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Do you understand common grace?
How do we remain serious about lines between belief and unbelief (between those who live in the boundaries of saving grace and those who do not), while at the same time showing active appreciation for all that is good, beautiful and outside of those boundaries? Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Church Leadership, Common Good, Common grace, Communication, Community, Culture, Culture of Honor, elders in the Church, Emergent Church, Emerging Leaders, Evangelicals, Evangelism, Fundamentalism, Leadership, Local Church, Pastors, Reformed Theology, Walking with God, Wisdom, Witness, Younger Evangelicals
Tagged christianity and the world, Common Grace, evangelism and social concern, General Revelation, seeking the common good, social action in the church
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Challenges and Opportunities
As the culture moves further from God, we have an even greater opportunity live out the identity Jesus assigned when he said,…. Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Atheists, Call to ministry, Calling, Campus ministry, Christian worldview, Church, Culture, Emerging Leaders, Encouragement, Evangelicals, Guidelines for living, Jesus Christ, Kingdom, Leadership, Local Church, Missions, Opportunity, Religion-not the answer, Seeking God, Social work, Spiritual transformation, University students, Walking with God, Wisdom, Witness, Worldview, Younger Evangelicals
Tagged Atheism, cultural corruption, Mission of the Church
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18-29 Year olds
I don’t pretend to be an expert in this area but I’ve been privileged to have more than 28 years of ministry working with those in the life phase of emerging adulthood. This also happens to be the age group of our four adult children. In view of this, I offer 10 suggestions for ministry as a means to better serve those we care deeply about. I also welcome feedback (correction, expansion, explanation, etc…). Continue reading
Living on Mission
Eight Identity Markers and Callings of Christ Followers “Missions is an authorized activity carried out by the tenants on the instructions of the owner of the property” (by Christopher Wright,). Salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13) Light of the world (Matthew … Continue reading
Posted in Baptism, Call to ministry, Calling, Christian life, Christian worldview, Christianity, Church, Church growth, Church Leadership, Church membership, Citizenship, Common grace, Community, Culture, Emerging Leaders, Encouragement, Evangelism, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Holistic ministry, Imago Dei, Jesus Christ, Joy, Kingdom, Leadership, Local Church, Manifesto, Missions, Passion, purpose, Radical love, Seeking God, Spiritual transformation, Student Ministry, Walking with God, Witness, Worldview, Younger Evangelicals
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Common grace and the local Church
Younger evangelicals tend to be suspicious of some of the non-negotiable lines drawn by their spiritual predecessors. This is particularly the case where those lines were used to make strong distinctions between those (Christians) who were in from those who were out. Suspicions … Continue reading
The best hope for our nation
In a recent piece for Huffpost Religion, Christian Smith (professor of Sociology, Notre Dame University), suggested that the emerging generation (those in what he calls “adultolescence”) has rejected sectarian conflict over religious differences that dominated American life a few generations ago and turned to … Continue reading
Posted in All religions the same?, Apologetics, Assurance, Christianity, Church, Church growth, Culture, Culture of Honor, Cynicism, Democracy, Democrats, Emerging Leaders, Encouragement, Evangelicals, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Holistic ministry, Hope?, Human depravity, Human dignity, Humanism, Law, Manifesto, Parenting teens, Pastors, Political Correctness, Politics, Prison, Republican, Restoration, Social work, Tolerance, Vision, Worldview, Younger Evangelicals
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Perhaps truth matters to them
Downloads of sermons by Mark Driscoll, (the preaching pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington), number more than 100,000 each week. More than 10,000 attend his Church and the majority are young people. Driscoll is intelligent and not afraid … Continue reading