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God’s Grace or Mere Methods

Willimon, in The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized writes: The challenge of being an evangelistic preacher is the precarious willingness to allow God to use us to assemble the church, which is often a church we would not have assembled if assembling a church were only a matter of methods of church growth rather than a matter of God’s grace. Church as Merely Agency Today is an era of church growth methods. We go to the champions of church growth to attempt to learn a “one size fits all” method of growing a church. We get energized. We hear

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May 29, 2009 No Comments

Gospel Reductionalism

I appreciate much of this perspecive of evangelism and church life. Having served in a parachurch organization, I have always see Scripture placing the home of evangelism in the community life of the local church. I have been preaching and calling people to submit to the Bible alone (Sola Scriptura, not Sola Scriptura) as the authoirty for all of life, but it seems that people today are satisfied with a partial, truncated, and reductionistic Gospel that makes Evangelism into a huministic endever by defining the Gospel on their own authority. I see many local churchs today who claim to be

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October 31, 2007 No Comments

Four Ways The Gospel is Spoiled

Over at Old Truth.com, this great little article on the gospel is something that is important to grasp: Quoting JC Ryle . . . But we do say confidently, that there are many ways in which the faith of Christ may be marred and spoiled, without being positively denied. And here we venture to think is the very reason that so much religion called Christian, is not truly Evangelical. The Gospel in fact is a most curiously and delicately compounded medicine, and a medicine that is very easily spoiled. Here are four ways to spoil the Gospel. You may spoil

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April 30, 2007 No Comments

Hell’s Best Kept Secret (entire version)

Why do 80-90% of those making a decision for Christ fall away from the faith? What is the principle that Spurgeon, … Wesley, Whitefield, etc., used to reach the lost? Why has the Church neglected it? Don’t let anything stop you from listening to this incredible teaching. see also www.disciplemaking.net

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April 12, 2007 No Comments

God-Centered Evangelism

What is your #1 aim? Is it to save souls? To do good works for fellow man? Or is your ultimate aim in everything to glorify God? see also www.disciplemaking.net

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April 1, 2007 No Comments

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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

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