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Author: Duke Robinson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 320
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This book offers light to today's dark world. It not only diagnoses all churches' debilitating illness, but it also prescribes strong medicine for their health, survival, and positive impact on your life and mine.If you are a serious church person, wouldn't you like your church to make sense in today's world, so you need not check your brain at the door on Sunday morning? Even if your church looks successful from the outside, wouldn't you like it to stop dying on the inside? And wouldn't you like to know what it will take for your church to demonstrate the authenticity of intellectual integrity?As a church person, along with everyone else, the modern, natural world of science shapes your thinking and living during the week. Then on Sundays, you enter the contradictory, biblical, and medieval world of the weird, enchanted forest with ghosts, demons, angels, and other supernatural creatures. To date, you have not acknowledged this deadly contradiction. Either you have not been consciously aware of it or, you have been, but you have not known what to do about it and are afraid facing it could cost you friends, emotional security, and grief. At the same time, you suspect your church is failing in its witness to Jesus' exciting good news and may be dying internally. If you are a knowledgeable, non-church person, whether you were raised in a church and left it, or as an outsider you have tried to find one that is real and been unsuccessful, you know that churches impact you, your family, your friends, and the worlds around you. This book not only assumes your life would be better if churches displayed intellectual integrity and made more positive contributions to your community, but it also describes the radical shakeup it will take to do both.While the book generally addresses how all churches can stop killing themselves, the last of four sections deals directly with the modern history, the bizarre beliefs, the shallow gospel, and the transparent contradictions of the dangerous movement known as Evangelicalism.
Author: Duke Robinson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
This book offers light to today's dark world. It not only diagnoses all churches' debilitating illness, but it also prescribes strong medicine for their health, survival, and positive impact on your life and mine.If you are a serious church person, wouldn't you like your church to make sense in today's world, so you need not check your brain at the door on Sunday morning? Even if your church looks successful from the outside, wouldn't you like it to stop dying on the inside? And wouldn't you like to know what it will take for your church to demonstrate the authenticity of intellectual integrity?As a church person, along with everyone else, the modern, natural world of science shapes your thinking and living during the week. Then on Sundays, you enter the contradictory, biblical, and medieval world of the weird, enchanted forest with ghosts, demons, angels, and other supernatural creatures. To date, you have not acknowledged this deadly contradiction. Either you have not been consciously aware of it or, you have been, but you have not known what to do about it and are afraid facing it could cost you friends, emotional security, and grief. At the same time, you suspect your church is failing in its witness to Jesus' exciting good news and may be dying internally. If you are a knowledgeable, non-church person, whether you were raised in a church and left it, or as an outsider you have tried to find one that is real and been unsuccessful, you know that churches impact you, your family, your friends, and the worlds around you. This book not only assumes your life would be better if churches displayed intellectual integrity and made more positive contributions to your community, but it also describes the radical shakeup it will take to do both.While the book generally addresses how all churches can stop killing themselves, the last of four sections deals directly with the modern history, the bizarre beliefs, the shallow gospel, and the transparent contradictions of the dangerous movement known as Evangelicalism.
Author: Powell Sykes Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1300377283 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 240
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In 1927 American Presbyterians chose to stop listing and insisting upon "the essential tenets of the Reformed faith"; instead, they emphasized tolerance and essential action. Since then, historic, biblically based Christianity has been supplanted more and more by a different religion, dubbed Religious Liberalism by the author, within the largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States. This, coupled with decades of removing practical means of holding pastors accountable for any of their beliefs and much of their behavior, is leading to that denomination's demise in the early years of the 21st Century. The author combines historical overview and perspective with his own experiences as a pastor of Presbyterian churches in North Carolina to make his case.
Author: Dr. George Joseph K PhD Publisher: GOD JESUS PROOF ACADEMY ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 376
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The American dream of a free world will be defeated, if Christianity will be defeated in USA. USA cannot survive unless the current perceptions of freedom and secularism undergo a drastic change. There is freedom to promote almost everything except the Christian truth. Ten Commandments are banned. But yoga is promoted at all levels. This kind of selective discrimination against the truth will destroy the very foundations of any society. Strange motivations of the anti-supernatural secularist lobby in the governmental institutions and their complicity in side-lining Christian faith cannot be ruled out. Thus ironically the undefeatable America tends to defeat itself. In its rejection of Christian truth and values, USA made truth a lie, and the lie a truth. If the current trends of self-hatred of Christian faith by higher criticism and liberal theology and destruction of churches continue, in 20 years USA will be overrun by the values and culture of Hinduism and Islam. And USA will go down in history as the most powerful empire, which had the best values in its custody since the days of its foundation, but subjected itself to a silent death, executed by its experts, and enjoyed by its people who went after thrillers, fantasies, romances, and other vain imaginations, neglecting the truth. Remember, it was the hatred to Christian values that instigated the anti-supernatural liberal theology from within and without the church, which ultimately resulted in the Nazi Holocaust. Beware, when the Christian faith and values are suppressed, the very survival of the societies at large, is endangered. This is the lesson of the entire world history.
Author: Wei Bin Zhang Publisher: Algora Publishing ISBN: 1628944781 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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The accelerating self-destruction of the United States cannot be hidden when the loss of productivity, loss of faith in government, enflamed identity politics and social fragmentation are constant and are clearly documented. Any national assessment should be grounded in facts, and Prof. Zhang provides a plethora of economic data as a baseline for discussion. The figures and graphs reveal many sides of America that we may generally miss. In addition, Chinese and other Asians familiar with ancient Confucianism have their own sources of wisdom and commentary to guide them in assessing how they and their neighbors think and behave. Here, a Chinese academic familiar with both worlds shares his impressions and his conclusions. Prof. Zhang juxtaposes the political, economic and cultural behavior of America with sparkling quotes from Confucius, Mencius, Xun Zi, as well as Western classical thinkers from Plato to Quesnay and Weber. The book gives us a new perspective on our country — with insights as well from Chaos Theory. In this book we explore how the basic concepts of the yin-yang vision, and socioeconomic chaos theory, can help us understand American civilization, what it represents, and the natural cycles it is going through. Confucianism is more rationalist and sober, in the sense of the absence and the rejection of all non-utilitarian yardsticks, than any other ethical system, with the possible exception of J. Bentham’s. The author presents data on American economic and social trends, and systematically compares the basic ideas of Confucius and Adam Smith. These are interwoven with hundreds of pithy observations on America from a wide spectrum of commentators, from intellectual lumaries to Hollywood stars. The aim of studying the history of human societies, the author says, is to find the equations, i.e., mechanisms, of historical evolution; by stepping back to view events from different perspectives he seeks to present America as an organic whole, going beyond a partial, one-sided view of history — neither the patrician perspective nor that of the workers and the poor. The book is basically an application of the author’s general theory on socioeconomic evolution to provide some insights into America’s evolution by viewing it under an alternative ethical system (ancient Confucianism), with insights from chaos theory.
Author: Darrel deVille Publisher: Creation House ISBN: 9781629984292 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 0
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FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS There are times in history when God moves through His Leaders and people in such a way that everything changes. This is that time America is raging down a path of self-destruction. And what we (the church) do or don't do at this pivotal time in history will determine the course of this nation--either the collapse and destruction of America or the greatest awakening ever seen. God's Answer for America is a timely prophetic message and strategic plan that reveals how to dramatically transform our nation, beginning with our churches. While displaying the gravity of America's spiritual condition and situation, Darrel and Cindy offer tremendous vision and hope for the astounding change that will come if we heed God's solution. This unique and insightful book also reveals: - An undeniable prophetic sequence that has unfolded since 2007, continues in our news today, and foretells what's coming next. - How bad could things get if we don't act quickly? - What is God calling Pastors and churches to do? - How the Great Awakening will begin, and 3 Keys to bring change. - What God has promised if we will run with His Answer And much more... A new day is dawning and church as usual is coming to an end. Now is the time to embrace and run with God's Answer for America to help save and change our nation
Author: Russell Traweek Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1622956613 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 184
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Have you ever wondered why there are so many Christian denominations or why there seems to be so much division in what we call the 'Church'? In The Breaking of the Strong Man, Russell Traweek believes that it is because of one word, an ideal that has created an entire belief system that God never intended—autonomy. Pointing out that we certainly do not need another book that features someone's opinion on what the Church should be like, he sought to reveal what God's Word has to say about the Church. Using scripture to demonstrate that many churches do not reflect God's word, Traweek demonstrates that autonomy is a façade at the root of the destruction of the modern-day church in America. This is not a self-help book or one that is program driven, missions driven, or driven by any other man-centered approach. It is a book that will challenge you to ask the tough questions about your church, your denomination, and your traditions in order to hold them up to the truth of God's Word. Only then can we get back on track with God's intention for his Church.
Author: Ed Stetzer Publisher: B&H Publishing Group ISBN: 9780805443707 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 90
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An instruction book for planting biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches, this text address the "how-to" and "why" issues of church planting by providing practical guidance through all the phases, while taking a missional look at existing and emerging cultures.
Author: J. D. Payne Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 083085634X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 497
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J. D. Payne explores the biblical, historical and missiological principles of global church planting, and suggests ways that readers can apply international church planting practices to their own contexts.
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