Friday, April 28, 2006
Our Newest Op Ed...
Prominent Evangelical Succumbs To Community Racket
- By Frederick Meekins
Christian author Chuck Crismier, usually so concerned as to the purity of doctrine as to suggest that divorced people who have remarried should consider divorcing their current spouses in order to remarry their previous mates or face the possibility of eternal damnation, came out on the February 7, 2006 episode of his program "Viewpoint" entitled Restoring Community To The Church as part of the growing communitarian chorus critical of George Barna's book Revolution. It is Barna's hypothesis that those pursuing their Christian faith outside the church institutional are just as devout as those that are in the pew every time the door swings open.
Though Crismier does a good job in pointing out that buildings and programs a good church does not make, in his interview with Tod Bolsinger, the author of It Takes A Church To Raise A Christian, he seems to insinuate that the sincerity of one's profession of faith is based on to what extent one not so much surrenders to Christ but rather to the will of the group.................
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- By Frederick Meekins
Christian author Chuck Crismier, usually so concerned as to the purity of doctrine as to suggest that divorced people who have remarried should consider divorcing their current spouses in order to remarry their previous mates or face the possibility of eternal damnation, came out on the February 7, 2006 episode of his program "Viewpoint" entitled Restoring Community To The Church as part of the growing communitarian chorus critical of George Barna's book Revolution. It is Barna's hypothesis that those pursuing their Christian faith outside the church institutional are just as devout as those that are in the pew every time the door swings open.
Though Crismier does a good job in pointing out that buildings and programs a good church does not make, in his interview with Tod Bolsinger, the author of It Takes A Church To Raise A Christian, he seems to insinuate that the sincerity of one's profession of faith is based on to what extent one not so much surrenders to Christ but rather to the will of the group.................
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 4/28/2006 12:27:00 AM 
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