Holiness Reeducation

Jim Collins, in his masterful book Good to Great says that good is the enemy of great. Good makes us comfortable. Good removes our desire to make the difficult decision necessary to be great. Here are the opening words from Collins book in chapter 1. Good is the enemy of great. And that is one [...]

The gospel you preach will determine the disciples you make. Does the gospel you preach naturally lead people to a life of discipleship? What do the disciples your gospel produces look like? Those are the very important questions I have been wrestling with since returning from the Missional Learning Commons on Saturday. Is our struggle [...]

Happy Reformation Day for all of you Protestants out there. Almost 500 years ago Martin Luther, writing more as a scholar than an intended reformer sparked a wave of transformation that has changed the very fabric of Christianity. I mean without Luther we would never have ended up with the Single Men Between the age [...]

A beautiful fall weekend in Indiana birthed a wonderful day of worship at DCC yesterday. What a privilege it is to proclaim the love of God each week. There is an almost indescribable joy in watching grace fall on a congregation and begin to work its way into the hearts of those gathered. It is [...]

What happens when we not only put the cart before the horse, but sometimes put the horse in the cart? That is the question I have been pondering for the past week since my time with Mike Breen and the great folks at 3DM. One of the most thought provoking studies we did was looking [...]

Is a poor theology of salvation working against our mission in the evangelical church? For the past several weeks we have been discussing David Fitch’s new book The End of Evangelicalism? You can see the earlier parts of this conversation here and here.  Today we continue by examining the “Decision for Christ”, how our theology [...]

Does neo-Reformed theology work against missional living as the church? That is the question David Fitch is asking today. I was going to continue my review of The End of Evangelicalism? today but this post merited some thoughts instead. I argued that Reformed theology, extracted out of Medeival Europe and transplanted to the frontiers of [...]

How can a Slovenian philosopher/cultural theorist who is self described as being part of the radical left help us understand the culture of evangelicalism? That is the question from The End of Evangelicalism? by David Fitch that we are examining today. Last week we began looking at this book with a wonderful analogy by said [...]

Is evangelicalism over? It is changing? Are we discovering a new way of being the church within evangelicalism? David Fitch in his new book The End of Evangelicalism takes an in-depth look at the political theology of evangelicalism, its foundations, its ramifications and alternative practices that might better suit us. For the next couple of [...]

With the Super Bowl just days away it seemed appropriate to delve into the too often visited realm of sports analogies to talk about some important issues for being the church. Even if you aren’t a sports fan, it is worth it, read through the analogy. There are different theories of how to approach a [...]