Eleven years ago, John Piper boldly proclaimed these words: I was a college student then, about to embark on my life as someone called to proclaim the gospel Jesus Christ. Never had I imagined then that I would be living in the communities comprised of tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. I live and minister 15 [...]
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Reaching the Lives of Those Who Have Wasted It
July 1, 2011Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 4
May 6, 2011Part 1: Summary/Overview Part 2: The Three Tiers Part 3: Situational, Existential, Normative So far in this series, I have argued that Christians should engage the culture, beginning with understanding and apply the example of Jesus in John 1:14. Cultural engagement should take place on three dimensions: physical, relational, and spiritual. I showed how these three dimensions [...]
Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 3
April 29, 2011Part 1: Summary/Overview || Part 2: The Three Tiers You may be wondering how or where the triperspectival paradigm fits in what I have explained so far. In yesterday’s post, I explained the three tiers: physical, relational, and spiritual. When people normally talk about triperspectivalism, they are referring to the three offices of Christ: prophet, [...]
Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 2
April 28, 2011In yesterday’s post, I tried to give you a little overview of the triperspectival paradigm and in particular how it draws from the incarnation of Christ (John 1:14) and the outworking of His mission. In this post, I want to dig a little deeper into the relationship of the physical, relational, and spiritual in regards [...]
Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 1
April 27, 2011For the past several months, I have been thinking and working through a triperspectival paradigm for cultural engagement that I initially worked up in the living room of my church planting apprentice. The questions that kept surfacing in my mind were, “What will it take to connect with people in this community? How will their [...]
The World’s Most Typical Person
March 3, 2011HT: Joe Holland
Where in the world are the Christians?
December 2, 2010So check it. ”The brothers” took Paul by night from the mad mob rioting at the house of Jason in Thessalonica (Acts 17:10). Surely that was a rather traumatic moment. This landed him in Berea where Paul, undeterred by the riots in the previous city, kept doing what he had been doing–preaching Christ. The mob [...]
The Crisis in My County
December 2, 2010Lee County, Florida is the county of my residence. It has also been dubbed the “foreclosure capital of the country.” I came here in summer of 2008 never having heard or seen a foreclosure in my life to now seeing front yards either looking like a jungle or a yard sale put on the banks [...]
Tim Keller at Urban Plant Life
November 20, 2010Steve McCoy pointed us to some Tim Keller gold last week. Here are eight newly formatted PDFs of Tim Keller talks from the recent Urban Plant Life Conference and Consultation in London. Gospel Renewal Church and Culture Contextual and Missional Gospel Preaching Integrative Ministry Gospel Theology Movement Dynamics Church Planting You can get these and [...]
Dever on Culture
October 13, 2010Here’s a good, short video clip where Mark Dever speaks on how culture is a reflection of humanity, both in its goodness (imago dei) and in its fallenness (depravity) and how the gospel, rightly proclaimed is both attractive and offensive at the same time.
Mark Dever’s Reservations about Cultural Transformation
April 11, 2010I plan on blogging about this in the near future, but for now I wanted to post a video interview with Ed Stetzer and Mark Dever where they discuss Dever’s 2008 T4G talk about the “largeness” of the gospel. The differences on defining the gospel among conservative (even Reformed) evangelicals is pretty clear and certainly [...]
Cloaking Cowardice with Custom-Made Bushels
March 31, 2010Don’t know who wrote this at Ligonier, but this is excellent: Martin Luther declared that a new Christian must withdraw from the world for a season, but upon reaching spiritual maturity he must embrace the world as the theater of redemptive activity. His message was, “Away with the cowards who flee from the real world [...]
The Church Consumer
March 23, 2010Now I know this video is somewhat silly, and I assume intentionally so (to make the point). The question I think worth asking is, “Does the culture in my church accommodate, encourage, or tolerate this kind of perspective about the church?” HT :: Phil Awtry
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