Today, let’s go over the declines that the SBC faced all over in 2020, and talk about why those declines likely happened.
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Unchurched: Evangelical Endorsements Reveal a Pattern
Lately, we’ve been examining Lee Strobel’s book, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. In it, Strobel sold evangelicals a bill of goods about those outside their bubble. And they loved him for pandering to their very worst qualities. Their endorsements and praise reveal a solid pattern, and today, I’ll show you what that pattern looks like.
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Pastoral Restoration: A Beloved Evangelical Farce
Pastoral restoration involves punishing and humiliating a male evangelical leader enough to mollify the flocks. Both parties seek to ease the scandal-causer back into pastoring without the flocks freaking out and rejecting him (or it blowing up into a public-relations nightmare for the denomination).
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The Legacy of ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’
Now, fifteen years later, let’s see how well Ronald J. Sider’s suggestions went. How many leaders took his suggestions? How’d that go? Has his corner of the Christianity sandbox improved since then — or not? Today, let’s check out the legacy of The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience.
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Pastoral Suicide: A Sad Dealbreaker for Evangelicals
Recently, I learned of very sad news: Darrin Patrick, an evangelical pastor, has apparently died by suicide. Unfortunately, this news represents part of a widespread and growing trend in that end of Christianity. Today, let me show you what that trend is, and what it means for evangelicals as a group.
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Teen Baptisms Are Down (Still!) in the SBC
The SBC tracks baptisms-by-age-group — and they’re alarmed about just how far teenage baptisms have plummeted. That trend doesn’t seem to be anywhere near reversing, either. Today, let me show you a decline that gives me a lot of hope for the future.
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Steve Timmis’ Rise and Fall (Reveals a Serious Problem in Christianity)
The more seriously Christians take their ideology, the more dangerous a malignant leader becomes to them. One prime example of these rules could well be what just happened in Acts 29, a huge Christian church-planting business. Their leader, Steve Timmis, just lost his job there. And he lost it by being, apparently, a grade-A jerkweed. Today, let’s check out Acts 29 and see what red flags Steve Timmis might have been waving there long before his situation came to a crisis point.
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Evangelicals: The narcissism that passes all understanding
Yes, nobody loves evangelicals quite like they themselves do. And I do mean that assertion quite literally. Today, let me show you the hilarious results of a worldview stripped years ago of the need for feedback.
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#SBC2019: The SBC Pretends to Care About Sex Abuse
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) just had its big Annual Meeting this year. There, they featured three main messages. First, they registered dim awareness of the huge sex-abuse scandal engulfing their denomination. Second, they outlined their response to that scandal. And third, they drilled down harder than ever on their culture wars–and sent a firm […]
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I bet you had no idea soulwinning was this easy
A couple of months ago, I came into two books by a minister that tickled me pink. I wanted to show you one of them today! In a lot of ways, this book reveals so much about Christianity. Come with me for a romp through Soul-Winning Made Easy!