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• Most U.S. Protestant pastors see Islam as dangerous – survey

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 626
  American Muslims at the Atlanta Masjid of al-Islam mosque, 9 Feb 2007/Tami Chappell Here’s an interesting survey that was released on Monday by LifeWay Research , which is the number crunching arm of the South Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical group. It says that two-thirds of Protestant ...
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• Review of Jim Belcher’s ‘Deep Church’ – Part 1

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 475
  Summary of Part 1: ‘Mapping the Territory’ Note: In this three part series I will devote two posts to summarizing Part 1 and Part 2 of Jim Belcher ’s book Deep Church . In post three I will offer some concluding thoughts – highlights and critical reflection. Introduction I was walking through ...
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• Christmas Wish ’09: Repelling the Martian Invasion

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 132
  Jacksonville , AL .   Just as professing Christians cannot follow Christ while serving Mammon, they are not being faithful to the Prince of Peace while glorifying Mars.  It’s nothing new.  The worldly principles of violence and war entered the church within its first three centuries of existence. The invasion ...
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• Pass the Salt

  
  A View from the Nest — Authority: 115
  A View from the Nest Random Ramblings from the Resident Raptor Insight from the Journey across the Sky “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men” (Matt. 5:13). ...
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• Pass the Salt

  
  Journey Across the Sky — Authority: 111
  A View from the Nest Random Ramblings from the Resident Raptor Insight from the Journey across the Sky “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men” ( Matt. 5:13 ). ...
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• Thoughts on the Local Church and Evangelism

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 475
  “Love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” – Jesus Ed Stetzer recently wrote that “the church does not have a mission– it joins Jesus on His mission. It is better to say that ...
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• SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND “INSIGHTFUL” EMERGING CHURCH HERETIC TONY JONES

  
  Apprising Ministries — Authority: 550
  Within a source paper called  Spiritual Disciplines: Pathway to Christian Maturity  (SDPCM), from the Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC), we learn what is now considered consistent with a proper Protestant approach to spirituality for Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention . Continuing along the lines of ...
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• Christa keeps the faith against predatory Baptist clergy

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  Bear witness and do not give up hope she writes:But here’s what I know for sure. Whatever else may or may not happen, I cannot and will not join in the nothing-but-platitudes pretend game that this denomination plays. Tagged: clerical predators, clerical sexual abuse, Southern Baptist Convention
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• Christa Brown draws the line

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  Commenting on charges alleging a Southern Baptist maga-church molested a 14-year-old girl, Slick wrote:It’s unfortunate that the person charged and his love interest couldn’t wait a couple of years.Christa Brown respondedWhat was done to the 14-year-old in that Florida mega-church — and what was also done to me ...
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• Kitsch, Trinkets, and the Commodification of Evangelical Christianity

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 475
  I recently heard Russell Moore say that evangelical Christianity is “one big conspiracy to sell each other stuff.” To be fair, his comment was not limited to retail, he was speaking more on a philosophical level. But, religious retail is a very large sector in our Christian subculture. I think we can learn ...
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• Is IMB taking missionaries in the field and people in the pews for granted?

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  Former Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board (IMB) member Wade Burleson persuasively argues that the IMB has its cost-cutting strategy upside down.In a Dec. 2 blog entry A Recommendation to IMB Administrators and Trustees in the Midst of a Financial Shortfall, he reviews the IMB plans to cut as many ...
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• Huckabee the Dominionist theology candidate?

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  “Unfit for command” writes Frank Schaeffer about former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. At Brad Blog, the former Religious Right leader says:It is clear that Huckabee is unfit for any national office and was unfit to ever be a governor. It is also clear that his record of insane ...
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• Southern Baptist Convention Still Has a Hard on For Gays

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 444
  I really wonder about the emotional/mental health of Christianists like the SBCs Richard Land (pictured at left) who have an absolute obsession with LGBT citizens and seem Hell bent to deprive us of civil rights and benefits that other Americans receive. Perhaps Land - like a number of the hysterical homophobes of ...
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• Ten Books for you to read in 2010

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 475
  One of the greatest things I learned in seminary was “ who to read; and who not to read .” In fact, I would argue that my most important spiritual and academic developments while in seminary came from reading good books. For me it’s in the process of wrestling with an idea, trying to prove a point, attempting to ...
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• Our dollars are great; your percentages are lousy

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  The Southern Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force continues its pattern of answering questions with language that confuses and frustrates.Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the task force, answered 12 questions after he spoke at the Illinois Baptist Pastors’ Conference, according to a report in ...
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• Why I am hopeful about the GCR movement

  
  Founders Ministries Blog — Authority: 103
  Over the last several months I have repeatedly been asked why I support the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force (GCRTF) and the broader impetus that led to its formation. A full explanation would include some necessary nuances and caveats that transcend the limits of a blog post, but the main reasons can at least ...
  4 weeks ago

• Church planting: Waste or salvation?

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 438
  Church planting has become a main branch of the Southern Baptist Convention evangelism strategy, but a North Carolina pastor who ran for SBC president last year has raised serious questions about whether it should be.Les Puryear, pastor of Lewisville Baptist Church, using statistics complied by the SBC’s North ...
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• The future of the Southern Baptist Convention

  
  "the voice of one crying out in suburbia..." — Authority: 135
  I ran across a very interesting article recommended by Tom Ascol, written by Danny Akin and Bruce Ashford at Between the Times . The topic was the future of the Southern Baptist Convention and there are a lot of important questions asked, sacred cows tipped, oxen gored and conversations started! Here are a couple of ...
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• What’s Missing Is Tears

  
  Ministry of Reconciliation — Authority: 109
  I have always deeply respected Tullian Tchividjian, the grandson of Billy Graham, and the now pastor of the late James Kennedy’s church.In the reading of Tullian’s blog today, I read these words:Grieving anger is far different from the kind of anger commonly associated with Christians. Lots of people think of ...
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• Orphan Sunday: Our church and Orphan Care

  
  Matt Capps Blog — Authority: 475
  “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” - Jesus The very existence of orphans shows us that something has gone terribly wrong in creation. It’s been estimated that there are 143 million orphans in the world. Just for perspective, that’s almost half the population of the United States. In ...
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