Aaron Brake offers three different views of Truth: The pragmatic theory; coherence theory; and correspondence theory. In his piece over at Stand to Reason, Brake explains these views and then makes the case for what he believes is the only option for the Christian. He writes: “What is truth?” Pontius Pilate wasn’t the first, or […]
According to a new study, what people want in a church is changing. Blogger, author and book reviewer Tim Challies expresses his concern that pastors will give their congregants what they want but “they will do so not on the basis of biblical convictions, but on the basis of pragmatism.” In other words, pragmatism or […]
Writing for Grace to You, Cameron Buettel and Jeremiah Johnson examine the pervasiveness of pragmatism in the visible Church. Because of the pragmatic approach to “doing church” we now have “seeker-sensitive gurus…devoted to developing the latest and greatest formula for selling the gospel. Every aspect of the church experience, from the style of music and […]
According to Bud Ahlheim of Pulpit & Pen, the very first tasked endeavor of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s expanded “Missionary Statement” is to “assist churches in applying the moral and ethical teachings of the Bible to the Christian life.” This is an important endeavor to be sure. But is the ERLC still […]
By Marsha West Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy. ~ Michael Horton The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God. ~ R.C. Sproul At one time the word evangelical was used to differentiate Protestantism from Roman Catholicism and […]
In this post Elizabeth Prata of The End Times deals with America’s love affair with “self.” We’ve become so enamored with self that our cellphones are used to take “selfies” that we post on Instagram, Facebook, send to friends, family and perfect strangers. Even professing Christians, who should know better, are caught up in […]