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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Singing To The World’s Tunes

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-107 (Apologetics and Social Issues) Fear of criticism has made Christians silent instead of significant – Churches must have the courage to win influence back from a secular world. SINGING TO THE WORLD’S TUNES By Peter Jensen The role of the Christian churches … today is to speak the truth in love. […]

Theological Liberalism – More Comments

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Theological Liberalism ( http://jmm.org.au/articles/9090.htm ) Rowland, as I lost the link (!!!) I gather you talking about your article from June 1999. ****** >’liberal’ (Tillich, Robinson, Kung, Spong) Rough grouping but fair enough. >Theological liberalism is, broadly, the attempt to adapt religious >ideas to modern culture and ways of thinking. These ‘Modernists’ say >Christianity has […]

Who Runs The Church?

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

[I lifted this from another long thread, where an interesting discussion tends to get lost]. an Orthodox friend wrote: -On Tue, 28 May 2002 14:51:17 GMT, -(Ninure Saunders) wrote: Unless I’m mistaken, your point is that this special catregory or office — “priests”/clegy have some special divine rights and authority over the body of Christ….was it not? […]

An Evangelical Theological Response To Postmodernity

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by Malcolm J. Dow 1 Introduction: Evangelicalism and Postmodernism Postmodernity is here – we are living in it, and along with postmodernity has come postmodernism. A question which needs to be answered is how should evangelical Christianity respond to postmodernity and postmodernism? There have been many emotive comments made about postmodernism which generally class it […]

Thinking About Christianity

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“Mark Tindall” wrote in message . > What is Independent Thinking? > > by Sharon Presley, Ph.D., Executive Director, RIT > Developmental psychologist William Perry. He suggests that, as we mature to > adulthood, we go through different stages in our thinking about > beliefs. As young teens, many of us see the world from […]

Quotes On Belief-Systems, Fundamentalism, Etc.

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Rabelais (Gargantua & Pantagruel): Quare? Quia! [Translation: Why? Because.] Rabelais (Gargantua & Pantagruel): I believe that the Goths spoke like that … and if God wished us to speak through our backsides we should speak like that too. Rabelais (Gargantua & Pantagruel): If you say to me: ‘It does not seem very wise of you […]

First Baptist To First Century

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From First Baptist to the First Century: A Spiritual Journey By Clark Carlton ———————————————————————— In June of 1986, I attended the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention as a “messenger” from my home church. The temperature in Atlanta was hot, but not nearly as hot as the temperature inside the World Congress Center as […]

Christianity & Politics

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Christianity & Politics: Part #1 Introduction Briefly repeat Colossians theme and relationship between spirituality and society. Over the next two weeks, we are going to violate the double-taboo–talk about religion and politics! Specifically, we will examine the relationship between Christianity and politics. Specifically, I want to address the questions: How involved should Christians be in […]

A New Testament Pattern For Church Leadership

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by Mark Conner (senior pastor, Waverley Christian Fellowship, Melbourne). “Many Christians claim that the leadership of their church is based on clear biblical teaching. What hermeneutical challenges are to be faced in seeking to move from the diverse New Testament comments about leadership in the congregation to the life of the institutional church of our […]

My Lord And My God

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-035 ‘MY LORD AND MY GOD’ From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. I give [my sheep] eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. John 10:28. The Jews confronted Jesus with […]

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