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Defines a biblical church as one that properly balances the eternal truths of Scripture with timely, relevant methods designed to engage the culture.
The latest book in the popular Re:Lit series picks up where
Vintage Jesus leaves off, beginning with a focus on the person and work of Jesus and then exploring the confessional,
experiential, and missional aspects of his church. This study grows out of the vintage concept of taking timeless truths from Scripture—truths about church leadership, preaching, baptism,
communion, and more—and blending them with aspects of contemporary culture, such as multi-campus churches and the latest forms of technology, to reach people with the gospel.
While Vintage Church is helpful for pastors and church leaders, it is the kind of book you could hand to someone who has questions about ecclesiology but finds the very term
ecclesiology intimidating. The authors put forth twelve practical questions about church doctrine and answer them in clear,
biblical language that lay people and new believers can understand.
Dribex
Posted October 26, 2009
In Jim Belcher's Deep Church, he offers a threefold classification of emergent
pastors. There are the Relevants, the Revisionists, and the Reconstructionists.
In the first group Belcher locates Mark Driscoll. It is probably unfair to locate
Driscoll within any of the emergent groups. His doctrinal positions are quite
conservative and his soteriology is quite Calvinistic. This book on ecclesiology
bears this out quite clearly. It is not until the last two chapters that anyone would
think that they were reading anything other than a traditional evangelical book on
ecclesiology. It is there that Driscoll attempts to engage the culture - an effort that
causes Belcher to class him as a "Relevant."
What makes Driscoll controversial is his "style." He is hip and cool "in you face" in his
pulpit rhetoric. His saucy language has been tempered in recent years because
of the severe criticism he has received as being called "the cussing pastor."
His now infamous series on the Song of Solomon stretches and breaks through
the bounds of pulpit propriety. Nothing of those controversies are revealed
in this book. As a matter of fact, I read this book looking to find faults, but
was surprised to find it quite traditional in almost every detail!
During the recent controversy in my circles over Driscoll's sex sermons, I thought
about a book written 30 years ago titled, "Billy Graham: The Pastor's Dilemma."
I wonder if Driscoll might be the dilemma facing young pastors today. Will I try
to emulate Mark Driscoll or John Macarthur or John Piper or ...?
I am 62 years old. I have crossed my Rubicon long ago and will find
it pretty hard to change at this point. Seminarians and young pastors
will be making choices as to what ministry models they will follow. They will be
surprised if they read this book and find that Driscoll is not the radical
they expected to encounter.
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Defines a biblical church as one that properly balances the eternal truths of Scripture with timely, relevant methods designed to engage the culture.
The latest book in the popular Re:Lit series picks up where
Vintage Jesus leaves off, beginning with a focus on the person and work of Jesus and then exploring the confessional,
experiential, and missional aspects of his church. This study grows out of the vintage concept of taking timeless truths from Scripture—truths about church leadership, preaching, baptism,
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