This question is triggered by this essay on Dave Black Online, which is quoted on our Energion Publications blog.
Let’s look at the question from three angles:
1) Should the gospel commission be supreme?
2) Is it supreme in your church and mine?
3) How could it be made supreme and what would that look like in practice?
Our guest on Tuesday night was Rev. Chris Freet, author of A New Look at Hospitality as a Key to Missions, but we were talking about his church’s approach to Christian education. Chris prefers the word “discipleship.” What about a “no” to a “Sunday School hour,” and a strong “yes” to small groups to meet…
Pastor Patrick Badstibner is founder of World Prayr (on Twitter). Pat has been providing us with a monthly blog post, but I’m pleased to be able to present this blog post, the first in a series of four weekly posts by Pat, to our Energion Publications family. Check the World Prayr organization and the World…
We get this question frequently from readers of The Jesus Paradigm by David Alan Black. The easiest answer is to link to his essay with the same title.
[Editor’s Note: This is another post in our series of “Why I changed my mind.”] by Elgin Hushbeck I have changed my mind many times, often quite drastically. The most drastic was probably my journey from Atheist to Christian. But that took many years and many phases. One part of that journey was a…
by Rev. Dr. Robert R. LaRochelle Current data indicates that an increasing number of Americans identify themselves as ‘unchurched’. This includes not only those who, in their adult life, do not go to church, but also a great number who were not raised within a church tradition. While it seems to me that more…
Energion author Heath Taws, who is also Director of Youth and Children’s ministries at Spring Run Presbyterian Church in Midlothian, VA, challenges us with some thoughts he had while visiting the Redwood trees in California. When I think about these trees, I think about how we should be doing evangelism. All of us know someone…
