Have you ever smelled marijuana at a church service? If you went to Ray and Elaine Stedman’s church you would!
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"Coming Out" is a hot slogan today, but not many people apply it to Christians--but they did once!
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People are aware of the big differences between various forms of Christianity, and it's confusing. But the differences are really quite simple: traditions! When Christian communities get tangled in traditions, the "Fear Factor" spreads and grows, and the Bible gets irrelevant and confusing. Grand institutions are built for security, but institutions also snuff-out spiritual
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In
The Dawn of Covenant Theology we described the rise of Reformed Theology and its distinctive characteristics, especially the phenomena of the Visible and Invisible Church. We now show how it further developed into a phenomena in church history we call Institutionalized Christianity.
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A group of Gen-X Christian leaders are emerging (not
Emergent) with innovative church-planting strategies and a refreshing, quasi-relevancy untypical for the old Reformed school of theology. In order to appreciate their (belated, but good) restlessness, we now continue to trace the development of this theology from part one in
The Restless Reformed,
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