Rick Warren Butchering Scripture: Prayer and Preaching doesn’t grow a church?

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POT-POURRI EVANGELISM

From Way of Life:
By James Alexander Stewart, D.D.
Satan is dishing out today in the Name of the Lord a potpourri evangelism.
The dictionary suggests, among other definitions, that pot-pourri means a “mixed pot with a bad odor.”
In 1940 I preached the message on “Hollywood Evangelism” which girdled the globe and which was read by a vast [...]

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Shallow Preaching, Cultural Adaptability Behind Baptist Decline, Says Leader

from The Christian Post:
Weak preaching and cultural adaptability are just two of many reasons Southern Baptists give to explain the decline of membership and baptisms.
“[T]he shallow state of preaching has exacerbated the lethargy of the church and left the lost with no real Word from God,” said Paige Patterson, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary [...]

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Those Who Resist

from Lighthouse Trails Research:
These are critical days for the body of Christ. We are in the epoch of church history spoken of by the apostle Paul as “perilous times” (II Timothy 3:1). What makes the danger all the more imminent is that not much of the church believes it. Many of us have owned the [...]

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The New Wave of Apologetics

from nogoofyzone:

by Tim Wirth

There is a New Wave of Apologetics sweeping through the Body Of Christ for some years now.
But before we see what apologetics is not, let’s study and see what it is.
 
The term apologetics comes from the Greek word, apologia (apologeisthai), which in the New Testament usually refers to an individual’s defense of his [...]

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The absoluteness of Jesus Christ

From Crossroads:
 
My Goal is God Himself. . .
At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.
 
“He shall glorify Me. John 16:14.
 
“The pietistic [or emergent, universalist, mystical] movements of to-day have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs the death of Jesus Christ, all that is [...]

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Christianity without Christ

1 Corinthians 15:14:
“And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.”
from The National Post:
No creeds, no miracles, no Resurrection: Minister preaches faith without the symbolism

There is a Bible on a pedestal in Gretta Vosper’s West Hill United Church in Toronto. She would prefer it did not [...]

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Why Evangelicals are Returning to Rome

“But why are literate American Christians running away from sola scriptura at a time when searching the Scriptures (especially using computer technology) has never been easier? On this point I am offering my opinion, but there is good evidence for it. I believe that the lack of gospel preaching has allowed churches to fill up [...]

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EVANGELICALS TURNING TO CATHOLIC “SPIRITUALITY”

from wayoflife:
Everywhere we look evangelicals are turning to Roman Catholic styles of contemplative spirituality (which in many cases were borrowed from pagan sources), such as ritualistic rote prayers, chanting, meditation, mindless centering prayer, the use of prayer beads, the Stations of the Cross, lectio divina, labyrinths, and “the daily office.”
The cover story for the February [...]

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Emergent MIND Change

from Herescope: 
“A new world, as the mystics have always said, is a new mind.”
-Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy:Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
(J.P. Tarcher, 1980), p. 36 [emphasis added]
 
“The mystery of the creative/intuitive mind is underscored in the ‘perennial wisdom’, which finds the deep intuition connected to the one Universal Mind. Thus there are [...]

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