The new voices of the Religious Left – Rick Warren, Joel Hunter, Tony Campolo, Jim Wallis, et al – are defining down what it means to be an evangelical by making the symptoms of man’s sin (poverty, disease, etc.) a priority rather than addressing the cause of those symptoms (sin) and the cure found in the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

“The Religious Left is successfully redefining what it means to be a conservative evangelical by misrepresenting what it means to be a conservative evangelical. In a recent conference call hosted by Faith in Public Life, one of the emerging voices of the Religious Left, Dr. Joel Hunter, said: Read the rest of this entry »

God was sitting in heaven one day when a scientist said to Him,

“God, we don’t need you anymore. Science has finally figured
out a way to create life out of nothing - in other words, we can
now do what you did in the beginning.”

“Oh, is that so? Tell Me…” replies God.

“Well,” says the scientist, “we can take dirt and form it into the
likeness of you and breathe life into it, thus creating man.”

“Well, that’s very interesting…show Me.”

So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the
soil into the shape of a man.

“No, no, no…” interrupts God, “Make your own dirt.”

A new book is out by George Barna and Frank Viola.  There is a chapter that implies the position in the church of ‘pastor’ (synonym for ’shepherd’) is anti-biblical in it’s present practice.I have not read the book, but it is being thoroughly discussed at www.outofur.com where I have posted this comment: Read the rest of this entry »