What Lessons Can We Learn from the History of Liberalism?
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Evangelicalism today is well positioned for a new liberal departure. There is a widespread sense of crisis among evangelicals. We sense that something has gone wrong with the church, not least because the church seems irrelevant to the persons we are trying to reach with the gospel. Christianity seems to have lost all credit in society. These are the same conditions from which the old liberalism emerged.
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By More Than a Feeling: The Emotions and Christian Devotion
By D.G. Hart
Evangelicals love emotions. They evaluate church services based on whether or not they provide a transcendent experience. They chastise preachers for being too dry or heady because they want someone who speaks from the heart. They value authenticity and sincerity and abhor anything resembling formalism.
But this isn't the first time in history evangelicals have so valued the emotions.
A HISTORICAL PRECEDENT
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By Church Membership in a World Without NASCAR
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In our previous two articles on the topic of church membership, we saw the biblical support for the modern practice of local church membership. In this article, we will look at how some of our spiritual fathers thought about church membership.
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With a Little Help From My Friends
Our culture is not one that provides great encouragement for the nurture and development of deep, long-lasting, satisfying friendships. Such friendships take time and sacrifice, and the busy world of the early twenty-first century West, as a rule, is far more interested in receiving and possessing than sacrificing and giving.[1]
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Historical Critique of Multi-Site: Not Over My Dead Body
Congregationalists and Baptists have spilled a lot of ink during the past five centuries arguing about church government. Whether they've been fending off Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, or those within their own ranks, Congregationalists and Baptists have dug deep into both Scripture and their inkwells in order to discover, declare, and argue for a biblical church polity.[1]
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