Imperishable Inheritance

Most Chris­tians today have grown up learn­ing and know­ing rela­tional evan­ge­lism as the only truly effec­tive method of evan­ge­lism. Open-air preach­ing is seen as “dated” and “not how Jesus would’ve done it.” Move­ments such as the Wil­low Creek and Vine­yard move­ments have pressed upon much of evan­gel­i­cal­ism the rela­tional method­ol­ogy to evangelism. There are many ques­tions we could pose, but I want to really dig down and define what “rela­tional evan­ge­lism” should be, but first I want to out­line what this (read more...)

“Even among Chris­tians, sin is not always seen as our deep­est or pri­mary prob­lem. For exam­ple, if I were to reflect on the prob­lems of my day, they might include my finances, chil­dren, wife, health, weight, rep­u­ta­tion, lack of last­ing con­tri­bu­tions, car, leaky faucet, or environment-endangering lawn mower. Even when I am an obvi­ous wrong­doer, I still can think that sin is not my pri­mary prob­lem. It is one of those prob­lems that come up occa­sion­ally; it is not, I feel, (read more...)

While read­ing through Joshua recently I came upon a pas­sage that caught my atten­tion. Joshua is a book rid­dled with the theme of God’s faith­ful­ness to his covenant promises. As the Lord leads Joshua and the Israelites across the Jor­dan and they con­quer the land promised to them Joshua begins to divvy the land amongst the tribes. When he came to the Lev­i­ties how­ever there was a dif­fer­ent story: “But to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inher­i­tance; (read more...)