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These posts are designed to add practically and topically to the purposes of this site.
These posts are designed to add practically and topically to the purposes of this site.
Today’s western Church is suffering from the same fear of facing opposition exhibited by the Israelites during the Exodus. If the Church won’t face up to this fact it will continue to wander the wilderness of social disrespect and irrelevance it has garnered in for the last 40 years.
The Church in the U.K. could have done so much more during the Brexit fiasco to stand for truth and principle. The reason they have not done so is because it is directed by managers wedded to the status quo, not leadership, properly understood.
The usual methods of evangelism are poorly suited to today’s social climate. Sixteen examples of the biblical precepts that Christians do not take into account when conducting evangelism are listed here
THe Ephesian riot in Acts 19 proves the same anti-Christian forces at work then are the same as those opposed to the Churchtoday. Only the context is different.
The rising numbers of ‘hard atheists’ confirms the western Church has left a spiritual vacuum which it must now refill using the NGC evangelism strategy.
Those objecting to the NGC strategy often reject the 12 Reforms at its heart without realising some stringent criteria were set for their selection. They are based on the 5 core Christian principles and the need to re-awaken interest in Christianity for evangelistic purposes. They are not a political manifesto.
For any western church the Next Generation Church Strategy is about putting new wine in new wine skins but Christians seem more interested in their political beliefs than they are in the kingdom of God.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has identified six traits two of which relate to liberals while all six are found in conservatives. He fails to recognise they are all to be found in the Bible. The reasons for the deep divisions between left and right are to be found in these traits
If Jesus reigns according to the same principles for living found in the Bible then the NGC Strategy is a perfect fit on the basis that it reflects what Jesus would do
Preliminary comments on the extraordinary and disturbing western reaction to the Coronavirus