tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624163.post8225130441023199176..comments2023-10-31T07:00:03.078-04:00Comments on fantastic distraction: the Rob Bell Attack. when talking is not communicating (or when listening takes a back seat to how right i am)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06655535548514704730noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624163.post-62663348877450890052011-03-10T09:14:55.315-05:002011-03-10T09:14:55.315-05:00there's the rub.
Christ followers need not do...there's the rub.<br /><br />Christ followers need not do things that are anti-Gospel in order to progress the Gospel. <br /><br />is God that desperate for His Word to be advanced that He needs his followers to go against the Gospel in order to advance it?<br /><br />i don't think so.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06655535548514704730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624163.post-18171956628303229302011-03-10T08:52:13.483-05:002011-03-10T08:52:13.483-05:00Interesting.
I visit a few blogs here and there, ...Interesting.<br /><br />I visit a few blogs here and there, but all are of the pesant variety (you and me included), so I had no idea this specific "conversation" was on-going. <br /><br />So I linked into Taylor's blog, skimmed the article (enough to see him call out McClaren as well) and quote the publisher's sensationalized recap of Bell's ministry and his new book. <br /><br />And then I clicked into the "About Us" and watched the short intro video, which includes a number of pastors (some of whom I'm vaguely familiar with) talk about, what appears to me to be the subject of "our orginazation (TheGospelCoalition) exists to protect/police the Gospel."<br /><br />So my question is, why exactly do we need anyone to protect/police the Gospel? I mean, doesn't the Spirit already do this? And isn't the Spirit greater than any human? I guess these guys would say the Spirit led them to do it...and it all honesty, that is between them and God -- I have no play in that very personal encounter.<br /><br />And I ask these things from a very sincere heart. Maybe I'm completley off track?? Out of my mind, even?? But how can placing too much faith in the Spirit to work in the hearts of men, women and children (even those who read Bell), be a bad thing?<br /><br />It somewhat harkens my thoughts back to the whole Creation vs. Evolution case in Pennsylvania a few years back that I blogged about -- why does a Christian-populated school board feel the need to lie about their motives in order to weasel a creation statement into a public school biology class, as if God's own creation does not speak louder than any text book I've ever encountered.<br /><br />Humbly...troy.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02447073839839821113noreply@blogger.com