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Entries Tagged ‘Contemporary Christian Myths’

Popular Myth#9 God hates the sin but loves the sinner

Mark Driscoll does such a good job dispelling this popular Christian myth that I’ll let him do the talking!
 

Popular Myth#8: A person is saved by ‘asking Jesus into their heart’

I’ve never been comfortable with the common evangelistic use of ’sinners prayers’. Even before I affirmed, in a conscious way, ‘the doctrines of grace’, I had my concerns about this method of Christian Initiation.  
It seemed to me that many where zealous to get unsaved people to simply ‘ask Jesus into their life’ and if [...]

Popular Christian Myth#7: Doctrine is not as important as how you live your life

“Christianity is not about what you believe, its about how you live your life” This type of thinking is very popular among Christians today. Yet as popular as it is, it is fundamentally wrong. It is serious error for at least two reasons.
1) It is a false dichotomy
To argue works over doctrine or action over [...]

Popular Myth#6:Warnings about hell are not relevant for reaching people of ‘today’s’ culture

I remember saying to a visiting lecturer in class one day “I think the church needs to bring back to the forefront of its mind that the lost are perishing and going to hell and that the proclamation of the gospel is the only way to save them” . Her response? “I think that is [...]

Popular Myth#4: Truth doesn’t matter

We, in Western Europe, live in an age of tolerance, respect, diversity and inclusiveness. Everyone is to be open to the opinions and beliefs of others. Except, of course, any opinion or belief that suggests exclusivity. The world is open to all ‘truth claims’ except absolute truth claims. Anyone who claims to have ‘the truth’ is [...]


    "We should not want a revival of experience alone without true reformation. And so the term revival is not adequate for our day unless we add the qualifiers “reformational” or “word-driven.” It is not wrong to desire revival if we mean a revival that is a resurgence of correct believing along with the enlivening of our experience with God which comes out of (not apart from) that sound doctrine."
    Jim Elliff