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Pastoral Abuse Is Not Leadership

By 2014, Mars Hill Church in Seattle had grown to 15,000 members across 15 locations. Mark Driscoll, the church’s co-founding pastor, was one of the most influential evangelical voices in America. Then it all collapsed. The charges against Driscoll didn’t involve heresy. . . . Continue reading →

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Schism And The Redeemed Zoomer (Part 7): Was The Reformation An Act Of Schism?

The Protestant Reformation undeniably divided the visible church in Western Europe. Congregations ceased communion with Rome, rejected papal jurisdiction (the pope), reconstituted worship according to Scripture and the early church,1 and established new ecclesiastical governments. In that descriptive sense, the Reformation involved . . . Continue reading →

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Does the Westminster Confession Teach Baptismal Regeneration? (Part 2)

1280px assertion of liberty of conscience by the independents of the westminster assembly of divines, 1644

In order to interpret the text of the Scots Confession and the Westminster Confession we must decide on a hermeneutic, a way of interpreting confessional texts. Often in the interpretation of confessional documents the temptation is to try to interpret a specific passage without reference to the broader context, but that is no way to read a text. Continue reading →

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Review: Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, And Profits Are Hurting The Church By Katelyn Beaty

It is my opinion that one of the more detrimental developments in modern evangelicalism has been the rise of the celebrity pastor. While the church has always been tempted to elevate gifted and influential leaders beyond their proper place, our digital age . . . Continue reading →