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the western church

Tim Keller posted a few days ago at the Resurgence blog about five issues facing the western church. It is all good, but 3, 4 and 5 were especially intriguing. Here is No. 4: 4. The growing cultural remoteness of … Continue reading

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Emerging Church: RIP?

C. Michael Patton has written an obituary for the emerging church after 15 years. It got some cries out, made some very good points, called for changed [sic], and then died. Its leaders are disappearing or have disassociated themselves from … Continue reading

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original sin, part 2

about a month ago, I posted on Original Sin. Specifically, one of the leaders of the emerging church had decided that he didn’t believe this doctrine and Kevin DeYoung called him out on it with scripture. yesterday, I received this … Continue reading

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Original Sin

Kevin DeYoung points to a series of posts by Emerging Church leader Tony Jones in which Tony makes the statement: “I have come to reject the notion of Original Sin. I consider it neither biblically, philosophically, nor scientifically tenable.” [emphasis … Continue reading

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