Sorry to disrupt everyone's fun. For the sake of banishing cynicism from our spirits, I'm devoted to the proposition that the contemporary church is not yet as bad as she *could* be :-)
Some of them, at least as I have studied have faulty hermeneutics driving faulty theology. Plus some of them have really distorted perspectives on preaching.
That's how I am about non-contemporary churches: they are not as bad as they could be ... but they sure are trying to be.
But that's what I like about traditional churches ... while all the contemporary churches are applying international missionary methods to reach local people in their own communities today, the traditional churches are dedicated to reaching for Christ those people who lived 60 years ago. But, hey, if the traditional churches ever succeed in bringing the American culture back to the way it was 60 yrs ago then we should see an evangelical harvest like none before!
But we understand why this is so. A few Sunday's ago I visited a traditional church and the pastor gave a non-expository sermon! At the end two people came down and were saved. I leaned over to one of the members and said, "Those two who were 'saved' today: keep an eye on them. They were 'saved' by a non-expository sermon so their salvation is in peril. Hebrews 6, man! Hebrews 6."
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Hmm, the things of earth are growing strangely dim.
5 skin tight designs? Jesus, like Buddha only better? What the heck are they thinking? This is wrong on so many levels.
I am appalled.
It's a satirical piece, authored by the folks at The Sacred Sandwich.
Oh, you're no fun anymore, Dr. Welty.
Sorry to disrupt everyone's fun. For the sake of banishing cynicism from our spirits, I'm devoted to the proposition that the contemporary church is not yet as bad as she *could* be :-)
Some of them, at least as I have studied have faulty hermeneutics driving faulty theology. Plus some of them have really distorted perspectives on preaching.
That's how I am about non-contemporary churches: they are not as bad as they could be ... but they sure are trying to be.
But that's what I like about traditional churches ... while all the contemporary churches are applying international missionary methods to reach local people in their own communities today, the traditional churches are dedicated to reaching for Christ those people who lived 60 years ago. But, hey, if the traditional churches ever succeed in bringing the American culture back to the way it was 60 yrs ago then we should see an evangelical harvest like none before!
But we understand why this is so. A few Sunday's ago I visited a traditional church and the pastor gave a non-expository sermon! At the end two people came down and were saved. I leaned over to one of the members and said, "Those two who were 'saved' today: keep an eye on them. They were 'saved' by a non-expository sermon so their salvation is in peril. Hebrews 6, man! Hebrews 6."
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