Wineskins Update
We continue to work on the Wineskins.org site. The archives are going in. Featured author blogs are getting hosted. The servers are getting dialed in. The forums are up and content is being added. The first new issue is being written with several articles in and more on the way. Forum moderators are being selected. […]
Restoration Movement – God is Interested in More than Proper Worship and Doctrine
The Bible starts off by telling us that God made everything and everything was “good”. Only 1400 words into the three-quarters of a million word story and the whole thing falls apart. Adam and Eve broke the sole command they had, followed by one of their kids killing their other kid, followed by ever increasing […]
CENI – The Good Side
After that last post about the limitations of CENI (Command, Example, and Necessary Inference) I want to point out some of the things I think are good about those three things. First, I appreciate people who have a zeal for scripture. Some of the people who hold most tightly to CENI know the Bible backwards […]
The First Century Church Wasn’t Trying to be the First Century Church
Last year at the Spiritual Growth Workshop in our Reaching the 20s & 30s class Eric Brown said this, “The New Testament church was not trying to be the New Testament Church. They were trying to be Jesus.” That hit me right between the eyes. Before we teach these things we have a pretty good […]
Scot McKnight Tackles “No Creed But the Bible”
Scot McKnight’s post No Creed But the Bible is of particular interest to those of us who have a background in the Restoration Movement. In this post, McKnight reviews Carl Trueman’s book The Creedal Imperative where Trueman sets out to show that approach really isn’t possible or helpful. McKnight draws the distinction that we all may not have written […]
James McCarty’s Thoughts on Why Young People Are Leaving Churches of Christ
James McCarty wrote an interesting post on why young people are leaving Churches of Christ: Homeless: An Essay on the Ecclesial Lives of Young Adults from the Churches of Christ James lays out 5 reasons he believes young people are leaving Churches of Christ and then ends the post with some words for those young people and […]
Francis Chan and Churches of Christ/Restoration Movement Influence?
Many of you have probably heard that Francis Chan is going to keynote at the Tulsa Workshop in 2013. When Terry Rush broke the news back in April he mentioned Chan’s connection with Wes Woodell helped work out the speaking arrangement. I am really excited that all this is working out and I think that […]
Watershed Moments: Pivotal Points in Church History by Mark Adams
Watershed Moments is a curriculum written by a good friend of mine, Mark Adams for 21st Century Christian about Church history from a Restoration perspective. Mark has really outdone himself on this book. It is extremely well written. It is also extremely brief to actually cover the 13 moments/people as thoroughly and as thoughtfully as […]