John S. Dickerson warns that mission drift can take root over time and calls the Restoration Movement to prioritize spiritual and intellectual formation. His Youth Worldview Initiative aims to help students “hold to” Jesus’ teaching across generations.
September 15, 2013
By Dan Clymer I love Boston. Even though it is ridiculously expensive, academically arrogant, religiously skeptical, sometimes dangerous, and a place where it seems that sins are magnified and multiplied””I love this city. It has diverse worldviews and four idols called the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox. It is the focus of terrorist bombs and gangster murders, but I love this city. Why? Because God loves the people and desires to transform the soul of the city. Why plant churches in a city? In 1900 just 14 percent of the world”s population lived in cities. Today that number has
March 26, 2008
By Mark A. Taylor The nuns in Nell Merlino”s school told her to do good because God was always watching. But she didn”t accept that. According to an article in the March Reader”s Digest, Merlino asked her teachers, “Wouldn”t it be better . . . if we were just good and did good things and it didn”t matter who was watching? If I gave food to somebody who was hungry, what did it matter whether God knew about it or not?” Her teachers were scandalized, maybe because Merlino”s question implied some doubt that God can see everything. But evidently many
April 29, 2007
By Tim Hawkins “I know Catholic, Baptist, and Lutheran, but what is just Christian?” The professor, teaching a course in public policy at Harvard, stumbled through an explanation, “Well, that is a group of churches like the Disciples of Christ and others that have churches mostly in Indiana and Kentucky.” Listening to this conversation just a few weeks ago made me realize the difficulty others have in putting the Christian church piece into their puzzle of modern denominations in the United States. While the professor”s characterization of the Christian churches seems oversimplified, the people of New England would agree. Dan
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