Gospel
Most Prominent False Gospel in America
11/03/08
John Piper & Matt Chandler
Audio clip of John Piper and Matt Chandler sharing some of the lessons they learned in being pastors and other great insights
The Discipleship Challenge
07/18/08
Winfield Bevins
There is a lack of biblical discipleship in the North American church. Dallas Willard calls, “Nondiscipleship the elephant of the church.” The problem is many churches focus on evangelism at the expense of discipleship by seeking to win converts and not making disciples. This is despite the fact that the Great Commission in Matthew chapter 28 is to make disciples not win converts. When Jesus said, “make disciples” the disciples understood it to mean more than simply getting someone to believe in Jesus and they interpreted it to mean that they should make out of other what Jesus made out of them. The answer is that we need to focus on keeping people as much as we do reaching people by creating an organic discipleship process that leads people from conversion to becoming fully devoted disciples of Jesus Christ.
Dad, Me, Expensive Soda and the Gospel
05/12/08
Matthew Kruse
My dad and I are really different guys. He subscribes to Verizon FiOS and its 999 channels. I get PBS, fuzzy, through an antenna. He sports a thick, white, Papa Smurf beard. I grow a mere soul patch and can’t stand the itch. He is at home under the hood of a ‘57 Chevy. I can change a flat tire, I think. He’s pretty sure that salvation is like the Orange Line: the heavenly doors are open, you just have to decide to get on. I am a little more Reformed: unless God changes your heart, you’ll never want to board that train.