Some years ago a group fashioned itself as a renewal group. Intent to stem the perceived tide of progress they labeled themselves a group to return a local church to “a New Testament Church.” After some years of college and seminary I reflected on that moment in my Christian experience and wondered, “Which New Testament [...]
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“Didachists” to Avoid – The Dishonest Type
I am reading Tony Jones new book on the “Didache,” The Teaching of the Twelve. I have Bettensen’s Documents of the Christian Church which contains excerpts from the Didache. Tony offers a complete copy in his book. Imagine that! The former National Coordinator for Emergent Village authors a book favorable of one of the earliest [...]
Manifold Anticipation for a Plurality of Reasons
Nearly one year ago I attended a one day conference on the missional church at Biblical Seminary. The event coincided with the installation of John Franke as the The Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology. Before the event I enjoyed chatting with John as we strolled the small campus in Hatfield, PA. He [...]
Stanley Fish Reviewing and Defending
Tony Jones has pointed to a post by Stanley Fish and a follow-up by the same. The irony for some will be that Tony is pointing to Fish as Fish critics the left. I write that because it is summarily believed that Tony is a “liberal” despite the fact he references Nicea and Calcedon as [...]
Intersecting Andy Stanley and Tony Jones – Uncertain and Confident
Uncertainty and forgiveness may get you fired? Reading over at Out of Ur this morning left me thinking of some of my own experiences. The writer points to Andy Stanley’s talk at Catalyst West about leadership in the throes of uncertainty as opposed to “wrinkle-free” environs. I was left ruminating about some of my own [...]
A Good Friday Reflection from Tony Jones
Tony gets banged around a bit for his recent explanation of his position on “gay marriage.” Others rant about his preferred understanding of the atonement, which by the way does not exclude substution while it does the “penal” adjective.
Today Tony offers a reflection on this Good Friday. What I find important is his expressing his [...]
Fear the Jones – Where Do You Get Your Information?
We have all been guilty. Our self-selected source of authority on a given subject speaks and with something like blind acceptance we believe it all, proverbially hook-line-and-sinker. Ed Stetzer recently tweeted a long assumed quote from St. Francis was bogus. Many, like myself, offered an attributed quote to St. Francis to counter a climate where [...]
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