The Cutting Edge: Technology & Church Ministry

Bob Gonzales

All churches employ forms of modern technology to assist them in the tasks of outreach, discipleship, community, and worship. This raises the question as to whether the Bible provides the church with any guidelines or principles for choosing and using appropriate forms of technology in carrying out her Great Commission. I believe it does. One key text in this regard actually comes from the Old Testament. I’m thinking of Ecclesiastes 10:10, where we read, “Using a dull ax requires great strength, so sharpen the blade.

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John 3:16—God Loved "So Much" or "Like This"?

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“Welcome to a special conversation about John 3:16 and a Greek particle. A Greek word that gets some debate among users of different English Bible versions. And I’ve got with me as a guest Gary Manning of Biola.” - Mark Ward

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The Problem with Christian “Worldview”

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“Some argue that the German rationalist history of worldview makes it wrong, misguided, or even unbiblical for Christians. Others suggest that it reduces authentic faith to something too cerebral, too impersonal, or too formulaic. Perhaps the most common critique is that it just doesn’t ‘work’ in today’s cultural environment.” - Breakpoint

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Three major motions defeated at #SBC25

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“The motion to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission….a motion about adding a statement to the SBC constitution stating churches in friendly cooperation with the SBC must affirm, appoint or employ ‘only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by scripture’….

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Defeating the Devil

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“C. S. Lewis wrote to a friend, ‘There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.’” - P&D

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Jesus and the Ascension (Part 2)

TylerR

See the first article.

Because Jesus is our good shepherd, he’s our guide who cares for us in this life and brings us along to the next. Israel’s leaders (“shepherds”) were basically terrible. Worthless. Unreliable. Bad. It’s not that Jewish people were habitually bad. It’s that all of us are habitually bad! We need a leader from outside to get us out of this mess.

God told us that he’d send a special someone to do a proper job.

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