What is the mission of God as it unfolds across Scripture, and how does the Bible define the mission of the church specifically?
In this episode of Logos Live, I sit down with Ed Stetzer to unpack a theology of mission. Check out the full episode and accompanying article.
Unintentionally timely. This week my sermon happened to be on truthfulness, honesty, and integrity.
We live in a society and culture in which truthfulness is severely under attack and corroding quickly.
We can look at our political scene — where this word ‘post-truth’ largely originates — where we have this odd paradox between the rise of fact-checkers and yet the reality that very little seem to care about those facts. We live in our social media echo chambers and simply choose to believe whatever we find convenient. We use to say, ‘You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.’ Now it seems like everyone can have their own facts too. ‘Truth’ is flexible and agenda driven.
~ Sermon (An Integrity that Needs No Oaths, James 5:12), South City Church
As Christians, we must be those who resist such things, not succumb to them. #FakeNews #AlternativeFacts
Facts Are Our Friends: Why Sharing Fake News Makes Us Look Stupid and Harms Our Witness, by Ed Stetzer
‘Alternative Facts’ and Christians as Gullible Skeptics, by Trevin Wax
“In light of recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland, and New York, 11 Christian pastors and leaders are gathering Dec. 16 at the historic Lorraine Motel and National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis for A Time to Speak, a live stream event focusing on race, the church and where to go from here.” [Source]
I highly suggest you “attend” this event.
Sign up and view the event from this link (<– this is the same link for the now archived video — updated Dec. 19, 2014).
Read this article by Ed Stetzer: A Decision in Ferguson: How Should Evangelicals Respond?
Here are some of my thoughts (originally shared via Twitter) that I’d like to share with you.
Whether or not injustice occurred in this specific incident, #Ferguson‘s response is telling of a more systemic race problem in our country.
— Kirk E. Miller (@KirkMiller_) November 25, 2014
We have a race problem. To conclude otherwise is to ignore and discredit the experience of large sector of our population. #Ferguson
— Kirk E. Miller (@KirkMiller_) November 25, 2014
White evangelicals, be slow to criticize the “what” of the #Ferguson response and quick to ask the “why?” #Sensitivity
— Kirk E. Miller (@KirkMiller_) November 25, 2014
Js 1:19 – “Be quick to hear, slow to speak.” Ecc 3:7 – There is “a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.”
— Kirk E. Miller (@KirkMiller_) November 25, 2014
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