Seven Trends to Watch in 2021
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“Seven things Christians can look forward to this year after a very challenging 2020: space, virtual learning, challenges for Christians, ministry, and more.” - AiG
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Seven things Christians can look forward to this year after a very challenging 2020: space, virtual learning, challenges for Christians, ministry, and more.” - AiG
“American Christian culture is rife with congregants looking for lawyers, not prophets and not pastors. The church-shopping phenomenon puts us in churches that make us feel quite comfortable…. From all too many members of the congregation comes the cry, ‘Tell us what we want to hear!’” - French
“In recent months and years, it seems as if every single major branch of Evangelical Christianity has watched a famous leader fall.” - French
“Working in PR, I’ve stepped in to help ministries after a crisis hits. What they need is more accountability before it happens.” - C.Today
“In her recent book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, Calvin University historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez situates Gothard and Piper in a long line of white, alpha-male leaders whose devotion to a militant Christian patriarchy and nationalism inevitably led to…” - Christianity Today
“After nearly 50 years, the organization has changed its name to Christians for Social Action, becoming the latest and most prominent example of a move away from the “evangelical” label in the US.” - C.Today
Many “evangelicals still believe the heresy of Arianism….Two-thirds of evangelicals (65%) affirmed the statement that ‘Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God.’ This figure is lower than in the last two surveys (in 2018, 78% agreed; in 2016, 71% agreed).” - CToday
“I am joined by Dr. Mark Noll, research professor at Regent College… author of Evangelicals: Who they Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be (with George Marsden and David Bebbington, Eerdmans, 2019), ….
“Kidd has shown that the term evangelical has lost much of its doctrinal meaning….And though he does not make this explicit, I think he has shown that the movement has done its best when it has focused on doing what it has been called to do (evangelize, emphasize personal lives of holiness) rather than when it has sought political power.” - Tim Miller
“The book records the stories of leaders who paved the way for groups such as The Gospel Coalition, 9Marks, and the other restless and Reformed organizations.” - TGC
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