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God Promises that the Church will prevail

In my efforts to define how important it is to define our theology in Gospel centered terms. I have edited 3 articles together that share my conviction on the Gospel and its centrality in our church life today. You can read these articles at The Indispensibility of the Gospel, Gospel is focus of SBC unity…, Gospel will prevail despite churches that hide it. Christian Churches are doctrinally defined; we base our identity on what we teach. Many would find fault in this, saying that Christianity is more a matter of how we live. I don’t think we can separate what

July 24, 2007 No Comments

The Bleeding of the Evangelical Church

Here David wells His the nail on the head in describing the issues in Evangelicalism today and pastors must come to grips with how to get back to the real gospel: But in adapting itself to this culture, the Church, far more than was the case twenty-five years ago, is having its character, and its purposes, and the way it functions, defined for it. There’s nothing wrong with commerce per se, but I am going to argue that there is something profoundly wrong in trading Christ, or in thinking that religion is the commerce of the soul. Now this adaptation

July 2, 2007 No Comments

Meeting the challenge of Eastern Orthodoxy

First of all one needs to understand that natural religion has it orgin in natural theology that starts man with out any revelation from God in the Scripture. Natural Theology stats with autonomous man and lead to rationalism, existentialism, mysticism, fideism, naturalism. The problem with comparative religious studies is that people are using the same words but with different meanings. So there have been different systems of naturalism theology:1. East – Plato > mysticism > Eastern Orthodoxy2. West – Aristotle > Rationalism or Empiricism > Roman Catholicism3. Islam – Paganism > Emotionalism This is why Biblical Christianity condemns Natural Theology

April 2, 2007 1 Comment

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Glenn Leatherman

I am first of all a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ. I affirm Evangelical Christian beliefs as well as Gospel driven in philosophy of ministry. I am married to Ann and am raising 2 wonderful boys – Jonathan and Andrew. My purpose is to build disciplemaking disciples that are becoming fishers of men in fully displaying of God’s Glory in all things. Learn more