Is there a relationship between work and worship? And if so, what is that relationship? Your answer depends on your worldview. Most Christians, functioning from a Greek mind, would say there is no relationship. Worship is sacred and labor is secular. Moderns would say that there is no worship, just
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) Today’s evangelicalism derives from the fundamentalist movement, born around 1900 in reaction to liberal modernism, which had been influenced by Darwin’s new theory of naturalism. About the genesis of fundamentalism, Indian scholar Vishal Mangalwadi has noted, In reacting against rationalism, Fundamentalism abandoned studying the books of
Bible teachers have long emphasized the importance of context to establish the meaning of a text. The same is true for any communication. A friend pointed out to me once that an instruction to “Make the boat fast” without adding any context can be understood at least three completely different
We are happy to post, in four installments, a paper by our Disciple Nations Alliance colleague, Dwight Vogt, on a subject of vital concern to our readers. Go here to read Dwight’s excellent paper in its entirety. The Unique Role of the Local Church in Developing a Flourishing Community
We are happy to post, in four installments, a paper by our Disciple Nations Alliance colleague, Dwight Vogt, on a subject of vital concern to our readers. Go here to read Dwight’s excellent paper in its entirety. The Unique Role of the Local Church in Developing a Flourishing Community
As part of the DNA teaching on worldview, I share my “life message,” The Transforming Story. We talk about the need to tell the whole of the Biblical narrative and that our lives need to be understood and lived out within the framework of this story. On a recent trip
– by Gary Brumbelow A post last week entitled, Freedom, Prosperity, and the Great Commission triggered the following response from a reader and blogger in his own right, Jon Davis, Jr. I find that if I say things like what you have said here some Christians respond with their anti-“prosperity-gospel” alarms
Too often, a truncated gospel message has accompanied our outreach efforts. As Scott Allen has written elsewhere, an artificial division between personal faith and daily life leaves a fragmented Christianity, full of gaps. The effects are perhaps nowhere more obvious than in Africa. Church movements have been built on the sacred-secular
People are always asking me: “Where did you get these ideas that you write and talk about?” “What books or articles have you found to be helpful in your understanding of worldview as it relates to poverty and development?” To answer these questions we compiled an annotated bibliography and a Resource
Mission Frontiers is the journal published by the U.S. Center for World Mission founded by the late Dr. Ralph Winter. We are excited and grateful that this premier missionary publication is printing this excerpt from Scott Allen’s new book, Beyond the Sacred-Secular Divide highlighting the life of William Carey, the wholistic missionary practitioner
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