Recently Acts 29 member and Network Director for Georgia, Matt Adair, had the opportunity to preach to a group of 400 inmates a state prison. More than just seeing up to 50 conversions, he got the jaw-dropping gift of seeing "cultural outcasts discover that they could be part of God’s family because of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus on their behalf."
by Matt Adair
‘...he is not ashamed to call them brothers.’ (Hebrews 2:11)
I was arrested twice in high school - once for stealing a pack of baseball cards from an Albertson’s and then again several months later for using the same five-finger discount at a record store next door to pilfer a cassette single of Aerosmith’s ‘Sweet Emotion’. I spent a couple of hours in the juvenile ...
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Matt will be coming to San Jose this weekend.
At the recent Dallas Boot Camp, Matt Chandler took a few minutes before his session to explain why he's a part of the Acts 29 Network.
Matt will speak at the San Jose boot camp on June 3-4 – please join us to hear him, Mark Driscoll, D.A. Carson, Scott Thomas and Jeff Vanderstelt talk about the mission of Christians everywhere, and the role of the church in making disciples of all nations.
Registration for San Jose Boot Camp closes at midnight tonight – get registered now!
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Adapted and excerpted from Elliot Grudem’s Orlando Boot Camp message, “Why Arrogance Has No Place in Reformed Theology.”
When your study of theology grows your head and hardens your heart, you find yourself on a path of theological arrogance that won’t lead to greater theological precision – it will lead to heresy.
Reformed soteriology, rightly understood and applied in your life, should promote humility, not arrogance.
But if you look at church history, you know that even some of our greatest churchmen have wandered off into some pretty weird beliefs. And just their example should honestly sober you up.
Bible-Loving Theologians Defending Slavery and Segregation?
It isn’t just the liberal Germans. It’s men like Thornwell and ...
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Posted in: Theological Clarity
Tags: elliot grudem, arrogant, arrogance, arrogant theologians, arrogant pastor, proud pastor, mean christians, rude, prideful, theology, humility, thornwell, dabney, warfield, morton smith, reformed, doctrines of grace, humble confidence, reformed soteriology when rightly understood and applied, good reformed soteriology, soteriology
Excerpted from Elliot Grudem's message at the Orlando Boot Camp.
Keller, Calvin, Predestination - BINGO!
When I was in seminary, my friends and I would occasionally play bingo during the classes: what we’d do is write the names of people in our class in the bingo squares, and if that person spoke in class, you got that square – and if you got all the squares in a row then you got ‘bingo.’ We’d always make sure we filled our squares with a couple of ringers that we knew we could get to talk by tipping off their hot-button issues. So if you needed the ringer’s name, you’d ask a questions like, “can someone please tell me what this has to do with homeschooling?” and you knew that individual would ask the next question – and ...
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Posted in: Spiritual Vitality, Theological Clarity
Tags: arrogance, church planting, haughty, prideful, proud, bad attitude, mean, superiority complex, pastor, preacher, theology, calvinism, reformed, humility, confidence, humble confidence
Theological Clarity and Application: Equipping Believers in Biblical Doctrine
by Pastor Scott Thomas, President of Acts 29 Network
Theological Clarity and Application is an interactive curriculum of the book, Christian Beliefs: Twenty Basics Every Christian Should Know (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005) written by Wayne A. Grudem and edited by Elliot Grudem. Christian Beliefs (160 pages) is a condensed version of Grudem’s book, Bible Doctrine (528 pages), and that itself is a condensed version of Grudem’s award-winning Systematic Theology (1,290 pages).
This guide is designed to equip Christians in the core beliefs of Bible doctrine in preparation for church leadership or to help new Christians to distinguish truth from error. This guide can be used to prepare elders, deacons, ...
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