Useful Links for August 21st through September 2nd
These are some links for August 21st through September 2nd. Enjoy!
- The Thirsty Theologian: The “Wrong Calculation” of Church Marketing –
- Commentary: Keeping my distance from the Democrats – CNN.com –
- The Thirsty Theologian: What does the customer want? –
- The Thirsty Theologian: Necessary Difficulty –
Thomas,
I notice you’ve begun posting links to the Thirsty Theologian which begs a question, are the ideas the links extol endorsed by you or did you just find them thought provoking?
Sincerely Curious,
Ryan
Ryan,
I certainly find them thought provoking and for the most part agree with the analysis put forth.
For instance, in the commentary at the last link, Thirsty says
I agree with that, for sure.
What do you think?
Thomas, Thank you for the response (and very quick one at that!) to my comment. I do like the fact that Thirsty doesn’t want to just pick and choose the “happy parts” when he encounters the Bible. So if he’s saying that learning about who God is means dealing with some tough stuff, then I’m right there, dead on. What troubles me is the tone of most of these posts. For example, by putting the word churches in quotation marks in that last paragraph Thirsty is making a statement about whether or not they’re really churches. I could be okay with that if he told me what constitutes a church and why these aren’t, but since he didn’t it, it seems like name calling. To confess, I had to ask my wife what the word unregenerate means in this context. I’m operating on her definition of “unchanged by the Holy Spirit”. I know of lots of churches attended by a majority of people that meet that description where the service provides everything Thirsty is asking for, so what does that mean?