Willow Creek flipflops on the whole seeker sensitive thing
Friday May 16, 2008
Categories: Christianity, Religion
This will be quite a shift for the members of the church -- going from fluff to substance.After modeling a seeker-sensitive approach to church growth for three decades, Willow Creek Community Church now plans to gear its weekend services toward...
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The Liberals and Progessives are busy outlawing Matthew 28:19. Et al Matthew through Revelation inclusive. And BTW, isn't what Jesus said here a hate crime now in most of the Blue states?
Have you ever sepeated the wheat from the chaff?
You get a lot of "stuff" and a small amount of seeds. Following Christ comes from the seeds.
I love you Michele. You're so cute. Have you ever considered fornication?
Of course the real question is going to be how is Willow Creek going to afford to pay the upkeep on that huge facility without vast numbers of people giving money to them?
"I love you Michele. You're so cute. Have you ever considered fornication?"
Something tells me this is a Donny impersonator. It's telling that it would take this tack.
Wow, groundbreaking information Michelle. You do realize that this has been covered in other blogs for months? As a religion blogger shouldn't you be more on top of things instead of rehashing old news?
"Wow, groundbreaking information Michelle. You do realize that this has been covered in other blogs for months? As a religion blogger shouldn't you be more on top of things instead of rehashing old news?"
I'm just responding to the post I found on Christianity Today which is dated this week. Maybe this might be something you might want to take up with them. I don't generally read religious blogs except for Justin Taylor's so that maybe the problem with me not keeping up with these issues.
I'm not concerned with being in the forefront of any of this and comment when I get around to it.
CT had a editorial on it in March.
I must have been studying and didn't get a chance to see it.
Michele, have you ever considered looking at events and trying to put forth what you have learned at seminary and give us readers your own understanding of the events? Try to give us your theology, try to give us your understanding of what "god" has to say about it, try to be unique and don't just become an anti-Obama parrot.
"Michele, have you ever considered looking at events and trying to put forth what you have learned at seminary and give us readers your own understanding of the events? Try to give us your theology, try to give us your understanding of what "god" has to say about it, try to be unique and don't just become an anti-Obama parrot."
What do you think I did here?
Listen, I post what I find amusing, I can't help that the guy is such a font of posts because he's so funny. I don't get up in the morning and say, "What can I post about Obama today?" I just go with what's out there. In fact the days that I resolve to post about anything but Obama and then the guy says something stupid. In fact there are a couple things I'm not posting just because I'm tired of blogging about him.
"he's unsure Willow Creek can provide greater depth to mature believers by its moves, especially since more traditional churches wrestle with the same issue."
Willow Creek planned "to get deeper" about 10 years ago ... "They got more challenging" by bringing in teaching pastors like John Ortberg, Atwater said, only to see attendance drop.
Willow Creek would also replace its midweek services with classes on theology and the Bible.
We know that Christians don't like theology.
What I'm saying it that you are studying at Westminster Theological Seminary. I think it would be interesting to find out what you're studying and how you are taking what you are learning and using your own interpretations to explain it to us. What are you learning about ethics in modern liberal democracies? What sort of liberation theologies are you learning regarding God and Jesus? That's all I meant to say.
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