February 12th, 2010
Consider, young pastor, the word “reformation.” We inherited one. For 500 years, it’s been the ground beneath our feet. Assumed perspectives that shape the pastoral landscape. But the theological-pastoral ground beneath our feet isn’t a brass dance floor built on reinforced concrete anchored in unmovable moorings It’s more like, well, the ground beneath our feet: a set of plates that shift in response to subterranean forces. Like the bones of a newborn’s skull, subject to, admitting of, allowing for reformation as needed.
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Tags: Albert Schweitzer, anxiety, Calvin, Geroge Eldon Ladd, john wimber, Luther, N.T. Wright, plate tectonics, Protestant Reformation, reformation, Vineyard
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January 24th, 2009
Sola Scriptura is the rallying cry of the Protestant Reformation, but it never rang true for me. I was never a Lutheran or a Presbyterian. Forgive me, but I was raised Episcopalian–that middle way between Catholicism and Protestantism–and then went Ayn Randian for a while, then back to Jesus through the Jesus movement, shaped mainly by a Jewish believer who didn’t have a dog in the Catholic-Protestant fight, which was a Gentile brawl.
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Tags: authority, Ayn Rand, Catholic, church, fear, fundamentalism, jesus freak, Jesus Movement, Lutheran, Mt. Tabor, Presbyterian, protestant, Protestant Reformation, sola jesus, sola scriptura
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