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Removal of Frank Viola book reviews and endorsements.

I’ve recently removed a couple of book reviews which I had written on Frank Viola’s book Pagan Christianity?.

 Here are the reasons why.
1) Frank Viola and Barna raise some interesting issues and important questions but ultimately my reviews were not critical enough. My reviews were almost a 100% endorsement with no crtitical analysis. This is my [...]

Jurgen Moltmann and Baptist Ecclesiology

Introduction

In this essay I seek to discuss the ways in which Jurgen Moltmann’s, The Church in the Power of the Spirit, can be considered a baptist book on the church. I will first of all set out the ways in which Moltmann clearly demonstrates a baptist way of thinking and I will then [...]

  

    "Some of you seek for faith much in the same way as you would dig for a well. You turn the eye inward upon yourself and search admidst the depths of your polluted heart to find if faith is there; you search admid all your feelings at sermons and sacraments to see if faith is there; and still you find nothing but sin and disappointment… Look full in the face of Jesus… Drink in His Word… Faith comes by hearing the voice of Jesus."
    Robert Murray McCheyne