Evangelism is not a making of proselytes; it is not persuading people to make a decision; it is not proving that God exists, or making a good case for the truth of Christianity; it is not inviting someone to a meeting; it is not exposing the contemporary dilemma, or arousing interest in Christianity; it is [...]

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…that Eternity may not be the church for me?   Well…that’s what I’m saying if you believe that the church should make following Jesus more palatable and less costly for those who simply want a “get out of hell free card”…
Or, a guy named David Wells says it pretty good too:
In our churches we may have [...]

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This past Sunday, I spoke on the centrality of the Bible in all that we do and say at Eternity.  One of the things that I shared was a portion of sermon by Charles Spurgeon on “Faith Come By Hearing”:
Take another piece of advice. Hear better; hear with both your ears at once; hearken as [...]

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James MacDonald, pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago, IL has a new blog called Straight Up and one of his early posts flat hit the nail on the head. If this is going to be the norm over at his blog, I’ll be sure to keep reading:

Bottom line: at Harvest Bible Chapel we [...]

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Jared Wilson leads a ministry called Element in the Nashville area and has a blog called “The Gospel-Driven Church“.  His post today had some interesting food for thought for the weekend:

And here’s where I get hung up: I’m not sure spiritual maturity can be quantified that way. I do think that the more spiritually mature [...]

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But here’s an interesting take from Mark Dever in an interview with CJ Mahaney a while back. I read this entire post yesterday and I think it’s good food for thought:
I want to be careful here. Not every church is going to be exactly alike. For example, there are churches that deliberately dress differently, [...]

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Came across this in blog world today…a good paragraph to chew on…

Our daily connection with the Father must become our chief obsession.  The essence of the 1st commandment (you shall have no other gods before me) is that God himself is the one holy obsession of our lives.  We were made to worship and be [...]

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But there is some great stuff here to chew on.

Some of the more provoking quotes here for your pondering:

The church is especially notorious for doing this. We have kid’s ministries and youth ministries and young adults and older adults — all separated from each other because of age, thereby negating any positive and necessary influence [...]

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If you haven’t read much of Tim Challies’ blog, it’s worth the few minutes a day it takes to drop by his site. Here’s an excerpt from his post today titled “Our Highest Aim”:

A few years ago I spoke to a pastor of a small church that had been formed largely on the basis [...]

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But here’s an interesting paragraph I read today in the blogosphere:
The problem is that this is not my point. My point is that there are fundamental problems in over-realized eschatology, both on the right and the left. I think we should stop quibbling about things like whether or not Lenexa, KS, has the same cultural [...]

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