The Charismatic Megachurch: An Endangered Species?
5 Nov 2008 3:41pm GMT If you're a leader in a charismatic church and haven't seen the most recent study on megachurches, be forewarned: It's simultaneously intriguing, disheartening and reaffirming, depending on how you view church methodology and kingdom calling. Warren Bird and Scott Thumma's "Changes in American Megachurch," which tracked the country's largest churches for the past eight years, is definitely worth a glance, if only for cultural gleaning. Among the interesting (albeit somewhat predictable)...
Cute or Creepy?
3 Sep 2008 8:57pm GMT
Hearing the Fathers' Voices
22 Aug 2008 7:23pm GMT I wish this blog post addressed something else besides Todd Bentley's marital problems or, for that matter, anything to do with the Lakeland Outpouring. In fact, I'd planned on posting one of those carefree "it's Friday so lighten up" posts with chuckle-links galore. But the truth is, what we're going through as the charismatic movement right now is no laughing matter, and neither is it something to ignore in hopes that it goes away with time. It's time for us to roll up our sleeves, commit to...
Council in Lakeland
11 Aug 2008 10:10pm GMT It didn't take long after the Lakeland Outpouring began in April for certain issues to rise to the surface and eventually cause such a division among Spirit-filled believers that many referred to it as a potential "charismatic civil war." At the core were such issues as extra-biblical doctrine, overemphasis on angelic encounters and necromancy. And as so easily happens in this age of armchair quarterbacks, the blogosphere lit up in fervent debate. Heresy hunters feasted on any proof-less claims...
Had a Good Cry Lately?
29 Jul 2008 4:04pm GMT I love the perspective Ecclesiastes gives us when it says, "There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven" (3:1, NASB). Some translations of that verse use the word seasons. Every believer knows what it means to walk through different seasons of their faith. It's a beautiful, arduous, light, joyful, painful, ever-deepening journey—one that, as long as we're nestled close to Christ, few of us would trade for anything in this world.I think I'm...