I am curious to know if any of you have done the work of exegeting culture, especially in regards to church planting. If you have, I would like to know what questions you asked and what methods you implemented in the process. I know that good exegesis requires current and accurate demographic and ethnographic research [...]
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Cultural Exegesis and Contextual Research
September 17, 2008Oprah the Pluralist
July 10, 2008This is one of many reasons why in seminary I have devoted my studies to critiquing philosophical pluralism and soteriological inclusivism. Oprah’s pluralism is answered by the good intentions of inclusivism (which I disagree with as well), and while academia is responding to John Hick’s Copernican revolution and Clark Pinnock’s “faith principle,” the everyday [...]
New Books in April
April 12, 2008I’ve been really slacking with my “book alerts” this year, so I thought I’d point you to some posts by JT on recent releases in April that I am really jazzed about. Here are his posts on the books:
* Christ and Culture Revisited (by D.A. Carson)
* The Courage to Be Protestant (by David Wells)
* In [...]
NPR, Child’s Play, and the Importance of the Imagination
February 27, 2008[by Owen Strachan]
A friend recently tipped me off to a great NPR article on the importance of child’s play. Here’s a key quotation on how child’s play has changed in the last half-century:
“Instead of spending their time in autonomous shifting make-believe, children were supplied with ever more specific toys for play and predetermined scripts. [...]
Is Relevance a Liberal Assumption?
November 9, 2007While the Board of Trustees were in town for the SBTS Heritage Week, Mark Dever held a IX Marks lecture in Broadus chapel in which he opened up by speaking to the issue of relevance in gospel ministry (I was in attendance). Writing for Baptist Press, Garrett Wishall quotes Dever who said,
“I would like [...]
Tullian Tchividjian with Books on Church and Culture
November 7, 2007Tullian Tchividjian has compiled a nice list of books on church and culture.
No Place for Truth by David Wells
God in the Wasteland by David Wells
Losing our Virtue by David Wells
Above all Earthly Powers by David Wells
Engaging God’s World by Cornelius Plantinga
Not the Way it’s Supposed to be by Cornelius Plantinga
Heaven is a Place on Earth [...]
On Cultural Engagement
October 24, 2007Given our recent discussion on church and culture, I was jazzed to see that soon-to-be-father-of-three Joe Thorn has written a nice piece on cultural engagement. Before he lays out six rules, Joe provides a helpful cultural framework that addresses the aspects of culture that are broken (to be redeemed), evil (to be rejected), and good [...]
Speaking of Church and Culture
October 11, 2007[For context of current discussion, see my posts here and here.]
Phil Ryken at Reformation 21 blog asks the question,
Does Scripture call the local church (by which we mean the local church as the local church, not as individual Christians) to the work of cultural transformation?
There is a sense in which the answer to this [...]
Toward a Missional SBC, Part 2
October 7, 2007[Caveat: Figuring that I would be questioned/challenged thus, "So Timmy, what are you doing to be a missional Christian or advance the cause of a missional SBC? You blog, so what? And you're a Calvinist! I thought you guys didn't do evangelism." That's what yesterday's post was hoping to address at least [...]
From Rural to Suburban to Urban, or The Kellerizing of the SBC
October 4, 2007One of the changes I have seen in recent church revitalization and church planting is the move to the cities. Southern Baptist churches have predominantly been located in rural areas, although the megachurch movement eventually led churches to start in booming suburban populations. Yet it is a relatively new emphasis and change to see more [...]
Quote(s) of the Week 3
September 22, 2007“No truth which human beings may articulate can ever be articulated in a culture-transcending way—but that does not mean that the truth thus articulated does not transcend culture.”
- D.A. Carson
So I’m not singing to Jesus that I’m in love with him, because I’m not. I love him, and I aspire to loving him with all [...]
The 2008 National Resurgence Conference: Text and Context
September 13, 2007For more information including speakers and schedule, go here. Now this is the kind of conference we need to be having!
Piper: “Oh my . . . there is a lot of foolishness going on.”
Hometown Hatred and the Gospel of Inclusion, Part 1
September 11, 2007This Saturday, hatred is coming to my hometown of Athens, AL.
A short, 30 minute drive north on Interstate 65 will take you to Pulaski, TN, the hometown of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). In recent weeks, the KKK have been requesting a permit to protest and march in downtown Athens. You can read [...]
The Threat of the Middle Class
August 1, 2007Listen and watch this short but solemn clip of Jerry Bridges talking about the threat of the middle class to faithfulness.
“I Found Jesus”: Exegeting a Popular Confession in Popular Culture
August 29, 2007This past Monday on my way to class, I happened to catch the Michael Vick press conference where he asked for forgiveness while admitting his guilt. The next thing I heard was,
“I’m upset with myself, and, you know, through this situation I found Jesus and asked him for forgiveness and turned my life [...]
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