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• Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Viola and Barna Exegetical Practices

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  After six posts from Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Practices , I think we need to Explore the Roots of Viola and Barna Exegetical Practices. 1. The Roots.   NOT LONG AFTER I LEFT the institutional church to begin gathering with Christians in New Testament fashion, I sought to understand how ...
  4 days ago

• Organizational vs. Organic (published in Neue)

  
  Reimagining Church — Authority: 111
  Just returned from a 5-day trip to Vegas. My coworkers and I held a 4-day Organic Church Life Event there. Great folks and a great time. Never saw the city before. It’s quite a sight to see, especially at night. What follows is a new article I wrote for Neue magazine on a subject that still confuses many people. ...
  5 days ago

• Pagan Christianity: The Order of Paul’s Letters?

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  Never has it ever entered my mind that someone could actually link the “distortions” in our churches to the order of Paul’s Letters and the chronological narrative of the early church. But somehow Frank Viola and George Barna have found a way to make such a link: What is needed today is a theology built , ...
  5 days ago

• Song for a Sunday: Himself

  
  Thought Collage — Authority: 125
  A hymn of A. B. SimpsonOnce it was the blessing,  Now it is the Lord;Once it was the feeling, Now it is His Word.Once His gifts I wanted, Now the Giver own;Once I sought for healing, Now Himself alone.Once ’twas painful trying, Now ’tis perfect trust;Once a half salvation, Now the uttermost.Once ’twas ceaseless ...
  1 week ago

• Tithing and Clergy Salaries: Sore Spots on the Wallet

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  So if you’re part of a denomination or fellowship that requires tithing to pay for your pastor’s salary, according to Frank Viola and George Barna, you’re engaging in “a harmful practice that has no root in the New Testament” (p. 178, Pagan Christianity ) According to Viola and Barna, the clergy/pastors ...
  1 week ago

• Pagan Christianity spilled into My Fellowship

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  An unusual thing happened in our usual worship gathering today: during my sermon on “The Kingdom and the Church,” one sister held her hand up and asked a question. I believe this is what Frank Viola and George Barna want our churches to experience whenever we meet: How can the pastor learn from the other ...
  1 week ago

• A Jesus Manifesto - Leonard Sweet & Frank Viola on SBE

  
  Steve Brown Etc. — Authority: 486
  Leadership principles, church programs, moralism and guilt…is that what Christianity is all about? Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola say were missing something. Actually, they say were missing Someone. Join Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola on Steve Brown Etc. as we discuss A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century . ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Pastor: Obstacle To Every Member Functioning

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  This chapter was rather personal for me.  Up to this point, I had been in partial agreement with Frank Viola and George Barna, especially in their critique of church buildings .  But the pastor! To Viola and Barna the modern day pastor is an easy target—a punching bag, if you will. And now the pastor is the ...
  2 weeks ago

• South Africa Tour

  
  Reimagining Church — Authority: 111
  Yesterday, I returned from a 9-day trip to South Africa. Our tour lasted 6 days with three key conferences.  (The other 3 days were for traveling.) Milt Rodriguez and I delivered 12 messages in those 6 days. We gave 3 interviews and had many informal gatherings with various saints and groups there. Our time ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do we need to Repent of Our Church Buildings?

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  So I’ve been reading through Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices , and I must tell you—Frank Viola and George Barna have put words to a burden of mine—our church buildings! Let’s skip the architecture and art paintings and get right to cost and function of our buildings: Cost: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reading Frank Viola’s Pagan Christianity

  
  New Leaven — Authority: 545
  My worship leader, a kind of a radical Christ-follower, has been reading Pagan Christianity: Exposing the Roots of Our Church Practices by Frank Viola and George Barna. It’s a critique of what Christianity has become—all the clutter of the traditions, as reflected in our various denominations. Product ...
  3 weeks ago

• Deep Church

  
  Ben Sternke — Authority: 120
  I seem to be reading ecclesiology lately, meaning books about what the church is, how church should be structured, etc. I blogged through the first book that really rocked my ecclesiological world, Simon Chan’s Liturgical Theology . I read Frost and Hirsch’s The Shaping of Things to Come , which was really ...
  8 weeks ago

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