Linkathon!
Patriotism and church…is it too much to ask for caution?
Stop making excuses for graceless Christianity…
Ten ways to disagree online without being a jerk…
Willow Creek leaders apologize…
Donors threaten seminary over Patterson firing…
Yohannan pretends to be Anglican…
Driscoll at Charisma conference…
Why the Anglican schism should matter to you…
The difference between patriotism and nationalism…
Is modern communication distorting our relationship with God?
Wayne Grudem wants to build the wall…
Did your church have patriotic worship on Sunday?
Behold our Christless Christianity…
Who’s leading evangelicalism, sheep or shepherds?
Carl Trueman on bi-vocational ministry…
Time for boomers to step up in leadership…
What if I can’t find my calling?
A better Christian nationalism…
Huge thanks as always to EricL for the link help…support him at top right…
Driscoll…sheese.
I think one thing he has in common with the Charisma crowd and his former church:
Both appear to be groups/individuals that spiritually abuse others…
My current church had no “patriotic” service – just the regular stuff and go home.
My former church does it the right way (IMO) – after church we have the church picnic, which also serves as the 4th of July picnic – it’s the same weekend each year.
After the picnic, fun and games etc, we gather in the sanctuary for a patriotic 4th sing for about 90 min.
Also, this same church for about the 20th year enters a float (a decorated stake truck) in the city 4th of July parade. Each year we are the only church to participate. A good time is had by all.
My first experience in “church leadership” was at an AoG church in 1992. I found myself elected to the deacon board, which were essentially ruling elders. At the members meeting where I was voted in, I asked for a recount…
At my first board meeting, a deacon expressed concern that the pastor had removed the American flag and the “Christian” flag from the stage, and replaced them with plants. After some discussion, he moved to have the flags returned to the stage. My indifference led to my abstaining from the vote (cowardly, I know. I thought that the pastor was able to vote), and the motion carried.
The church split four years later…
The Catholic archbishop here has been sentenced to a year of home detention for not acting on reports of child abuse earlier in his career.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-03/archbishop-philip-wilson-sentenced-concealing-child-abuse/9883610
Maybe the saddest linkathon ever. How far we have fallen!
Woe, Woe, Woe Dread