Vintage Church: Acts 29 Church Plant Manual (Sort of)

 Update: In recent weeks (Nov-Dec 2011) Mark Driscoll has gone on record with some explicit claims of continuing revelation. We appreciate Driscoll's ability to formulate and teach a few aspects of Reformed theology quite well, but we do not in any way agree with the notion that God continues to reveal himself to us apart …

Five Perspectives on Emerging Churches

 This is a good book which serves a good purpose: getting a general look at the beliefs and practices of emerging churches.  "Emerging churches" is a broad term, of course, which includes Emergent Villiage to (sort of) the Acts29 network.  I appreciated editor Robert Webber's intro and conclusion, which had to do with church, history, and cultural interaction.  He put …

Church as Business (Driscoll)

 "The assumption that everyone is a customer to be marketed to is a great pitfall for those who proclaim the gospel, because we tend to cast God as a product, and as mainstream a product as possible.  After all, scriptural teaching about the curse, death as the wages of sin, the flooding of the earth, …