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Entries from December 2007

Why Muslim Background Believers Turn To Jesus Christ And What We Should Remember This Christmas

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments

The President of the United States as this is written is George W. Bush. A mainline Christian with a Methodist background who states repeatedly that “Islam is a religion of peace” and that “we all worship the same God”, he well represents the mainline’s ignorance of the issues revolving around Islam. This represents no special [...]

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Tags: Society · Theology

Literacy, Orality, and the Future of the Mainline

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Tex Sample warned us. For years the “progressive” seminary professor has been talking about the “oral culture” that characterized the “working class” of “Blue Collar” people. Reaching them, he rightly reasoned, would require the mainline to adapt to that “oral culture” that spoke the language of people who thought using Prayer Books, for example, was [...]

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Tags: Ministry and Outreach