Women in Ministry

Last updated on: August 30, 2006 at 4:30 am By Scot McKnight

I’m asking for your cooperation today. First a question about women in ministry and then some guidelines for participation. The question: Why is it that, in denominations that have chosen to ordain women, ordained women are not being appointed or called to churches of 350 or more members? Now the guidelines: |inline Read more

On Seeker-friendly churches

Last updated on: August 30, 2006 at 4:20 am By Scot McKnight

David Wells, in his new book Above All Earthly Pow’rs, points a big finger at megachurches and seeker-friendly churches for their approach to ministry — for “doing church differently.” He points to five factors leading to this new approach, and then critiques their church-growth-movement approach. |inline Read more

Confessing

Last updated on: August 30, 2006 at 4:10 am By Scot McKnight

What does “If you confess with your lips Jesus Christ as Lord…” mean? Here Paul defines what a Christian is. |inline Read more

A Letter Answered

Last updated on: August 29, 2006 at 4:30 am By Scot McKnight

I frequent your website the “Jesus Creed” and greatly appreciate what you have to add regarding various issues of the Christian faith. I am currently reading your book Praying with the Church and find it delightful that you appreciate many different forms of Christian tradition. I suppose my question I have for you, if you don’t mind, is out of personal inquiry. |inline Read more

Why I Kissed Calvinism Good-bye

Last updated on: August 29, 2006 at 4:20 am By Scot McKnight

I’ve been asked by a handful of people to comment about the most recent article in Christianity Today called “Young, Restless, Reformed,” the cover story for September’s edition. Calvinism, the article records, is making a comeback among young evangelical (especially Baptist) Christians. |inline Read more

Heart Stuff in Romans 10

Last updated on: August 29, 2006 at 4:10 am By Scot McKnight

The Law comes to its goal in the Messiah; one is place “in” the Messiah by “believing”. In the Messiah one finds “righteousness.” Thus Rom 10:1-4. In 10:5 Paul sets those verses in context with Moses, who said that “the Torah life” is one noted by “doing” and Paul says doing the Torah is heart stuff. |inline Read more

The Rise of Neo-Fundamentalism 2

Last updated on: August 28, 2006 at 4:29 am By Scot McKnight

Last Friday we took an initial look at what I am calling Neo-Fundamentalism. Today we will look at the core driving force to Neo-Fundamentalism, but before doing that, we need to see its relationship to Fundamentalism. |inline Read more

Lil’s Little Green Pen

Last updated on: August 28, 2006 at 4:15 am By Scot McKnight

After four days of editing my Mary ms, I’m about to write a brief note to my editor, Lil Copan, to tell her that writing in green instead of red doesn’t lessen the pain. Sure, sure, I’ll tell her, the book is now much better. But, dang, isn’t there an easier way? |inline Read more

The End of the Law

Last updated on: August 28, 2006 at 4:10 am By Scot McKnight

What does Paul mean when he says in Romans 10:4 that Christ is the “end of the Law”? Without getting into a massive hornet’s nest of stinging-bee theologians, I want to narrow the discussion to what Wright says about it and leave it to our readers to state their view. |inline Read more

Theocentric Church

Last updated on: August 27, 2006 at 4:31 am By Scot McKnight

Gene Appel preached last night about fear, and he explored that theme through Mark 4:35-41. In this passage Jesus is asleep in a boat while his disciples worry. Gene made plenty of connections to real-life experiences of fear, but what I most liked about this service is that it developed into overt praise for the greatness of God. Sermons on fear can easily become exercises in therapeutic counseling, but this sermon moved us into contemplation of God’s greatness. Read more