I Guess I Am Emegent (but it was a tie)
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Emergent/Postmodern |
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82% | |
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Reformed Evangelical |
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82% | |
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Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan |
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64% | |
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Fundamentalist |
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61% | |
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Neo orthodox |
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50% | |
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Roman Catholic |
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43% | |
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Charismatic/Pentecostal |
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36% | |
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Classical Liberal |
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21% | |
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Modern Liberal |
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7% |
What’s your theological worldview?
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The funny part is that its probably true. I snagged this from Chrissie Koerber’s blog.
I actually had a tie breaker question that asked:
Which do you agree with more?
1. Older churches are unintelligible to modern people – This was the one I chose.
2. Preaching the word is more important than worship
In my defense many older churches tend to unintelligible to modern people, and I can’t see how you can separate preaching from an intergral part of worship.
Are Multi-site Churches Cheating?
Maybe its just me but the idea of multi-site churches seems to be gaining wider and wider acceptance. Recently a mega church in the suburbs of Pittsburgh announced that is going to be planting a site near our church. A week later I meet some guys in the Philadelphia area that are in the PCA and planning to follow a pattern similar to Harbor in San Diego. Even my pastor has stated that our church is considering the idea of multiple locations. So here is my questions: Is multi-site cheating? Is it church planting or church growth? Part of my questions comes from a conversation with a guy I know who seemed to say that multi-site was only a step to church planting. Is he right? Should multiple locations be looked at as only half churches? or some in between step?
Clearly its a question of philosophy of ministry. I would tend to believe that more traditional people would see multi-sites as cheating, where others would see multiple leaders and multiple sites all working as one as a valid way of ministering.
Another Good Quote
“Better is the loss that makes them humble than the success that makes them proud”
Thomas Watson – from A Body of Divinity
Church Planter Community
So today Matt and I got up way too early and caught a flight to Philadelphia for the church planter community forum that they have out there. It was a great time. We heard about the idea of mercy and justice in church planting, and Matt and I got to talk on the plane and it was a great time.
I hope that these talks yield some greater work.
Changing from Movabletype to WordPress
So I have begrudgingly made the switch from movabletype to wordpress. What was my reasoning you ask?
Well:
1. 500 SERVER ERROR! this one really annoys me when I updated to the new version of movabletype I start to get these wierd server errors when ever I refreshed the site after one of those painfully long rebuilds, this also meant that neat ajax things like snap did not work.
2. Movable Type is seems to becoming less concerned with normal non-professional bloggers, and thats me.
3. The reload time for Movable Type is insane. I have been blogging since April of 05 and there are only 100 posts or so, but it can take over two minutes to rebuild the site.
Maybe that sounds petty but I was just getting way too annoyed with movable type to even consider wanting to stay with movable type after another design change.
Here are somethings I will miss about movabletype:
1. mass delete of posts
2. multiple blogs on one install (maybe wordpress can do this)
3. Some sweet plugins that are missing in wordpress
4. I will not be missing rebuild time!
New Tattoo(s)?
It has been almost three years since I got my first tattoo, and Ive been pondering if I should get another one. Part of my dilemma at first was wondering whether it would hinder my ministry, but I’ve since come to think that it will not.
So I’ve decided that it was time to get another one, or maybe two. My first one was small on the inside of my wrist, and faced me, it read “Be not overcome with evil but over come evil with good. Romans 12:21″
I think this time around I will end up getting something a little more visible. At this point I’m hoping to get one of a sword and a trowel on one arm, and then get another one on my other arm. But which one?
Im leaning towards the Chi Ro with the crown but man any of these would be cool.
The Alpha and Omega with a Crown?
The Chi ro with alpha and omega?
The thc with a cross?
Or The Simple Chi Ro
What might be even cooler is that Joanna might get something like this on her back.
Cross
Wikipedia and A.D.D.
This is what happens when a kid with Attention Deficit gets his hands on wikipedia, he goes from reading about camels to reading about the power rangers. Man is this embarrassing.
Insane Finals
Unlike my Westminster brothers I got an extra week of reprieve before finals. I have a 10 page analysis of A Christian Manifesto due Tuesday, and a few finals, but after that I’m in the clear. No finals that I’m really worried about, just two Gamble carpal-tunnel-makers(100 minutes 100 points 100 sentences), and one from Kinneer.
Christianity Vs. Mormonism
They’ll never stand at my door step without being welcome into my house. This was a quote from a New Orleans resident speaking about the Mormon church.
Could Christians see mercy not as something that is secondary, but primary?
While I was watching a special on the Mormon Church they spoke of how the Mormon church was one of the first on the scene. How sad a state is this. Rodney Stark in his book The Rise of Christianity compared the early Christian church to the modern Mormon church. Here is the sad part it seems to be true.This program said that 50,000 young Mormons are sent out as missionaries every year. These missionaries are young people, 19 years of age, who dedicate two years of their life to the expansion of their beliefs. Is this good? – NO. Its frightening. This group is selling a lie and yet they are selling it as much as then can. Young people are giving two years of their life to dedicated missions. How many Christians are dedicating their lives to missions.
Even more startling a question do 50,000 young Christians share their faith with even one person in a year, let alone spend two years in the expansion of the true Gospel.
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