Category: Polemics

Dangers of Relational Evangelism: A Rejoinder

Recently, Doug Pol­lock stopped by to com­ment on a post a did a while back on some of the dan­gers in over-emphasizing the rela­tional aspect of evan­ge­lism in lieu of actu­ally shar­ing the Gospel.  In that post, I use an exam­ple from a book enti­tled Irre­sistible Evan­ge­lism to which Doug is one of the authors.  He com­mented that I had misused […]

The Test of Biblical Contextualization

One of the top­ics that one is exposed to in mis­si­o­log­i­cal stud­ies is that of con­tex­tu­al­iza­tion. At first, some­thing doesn’t seem quite right, and I even wrote on this blog my thoughts when I first worked through it. It seems as though some are try­ing to “water-down” the Gospel to make it more pal­pa­ble to car­nal men. […]

The Sabbath Today

I never gave much thought that the Sab­bath is a bind­ing require­ment in the New Covenant era until I started attend­ing my cur­rent church. They hold a Sab­batar­ian posi­tion which says that the Sab­bath is a per­pet­ual ordi­nance for God’s peo­ple from the cre­ation of the earth to the new heav­ens and new earth. The posi­tion is largely found […]