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Mirrors 16th February 2012
- A series of great lectures/sermons on Christian ministry that
Phillip Jensen gave in the UK:
- Shepherds: including a rant against modern counseling and how the church is stuck in therapeutic mode, even as secular counseling has begun to abandon it.. Also a great challenge to think biblically about pastors (=shepherding). Our task is to shepherd the whole flock, with the word of God, not simply counsel individuals.
- Slaves: some excellent background work on the biblical slavery vs African-American slavery.
- Men Pleasers: including Phillip’s own fierce version of the infamous Mark Driscoll rebuke of English timidity and a rejection of Key Performance Indicators and job descriptions for pastors.
- Soldiers: including a critique of Keller’s ‘love the city’ Jeremiah 29 stuff, a critique of boxing and cage fighting.
Ed Stetzer beginning a series on
Why church planting movements probably
can’t happen in the West but how we might do something a bit
similar with ‘multiplication movements’What’s your growth dynamic? Al
Stewart insists that every church should think this through.
Comments
Just listened to the Soldiers talk. Really good. Liked the clarification on the application of Jeremiah, also the social work stuff - helpful. However, at the risk of 'getting involved in civilian affairs', the statement that the aim of mixed martial arts (aka cage fighting/prize fighting) is to hurt/cause brain damage to the opponent is a bit of an over simplification really - Not unlike violence is wrong therefore pacifism!
