Jon Speed in : "There is nothing that can be done to make this a true church." (Referring to the so-called "Door of Hope" church in Norman, OK, the church of which I myself am now a part.) Shane Dodson now:

If his church preaches the gospel, administers the sacraments...

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors (shepherds) and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ...

So read verses 11-12 of Ephesians 4. Commonly Western Christians take this...

A **LOT** more important than mastering all the details and expressions of doctrinal minutiæ is obedience to the obvious commands of Scripture that are mostly neglected in modern American Reformedigelicalism - establishing righteousness, crying out against injustice, calling people to obedience, repentance, and faith in the Lord Jesus.I hear...

In the 30 May 2016 edition of the Polemics Report, JD Hall discusses some very interesting topics, including reading out an open letter circulated by Chinese Christians about the so-called Heavenly Man, "Brother Yun" and discussing the birth control pill.It is uncanny how apparently Southern Baptists are now the go-to folks if you want to build an...

Quite the fracas over at the (note that it's a private group) over the last day or so. It's hard to imagine how they have time to discuss real things between all the posts about beards, beers, and Battlestar Galactica, but they get around to it now and then. Unfortunately, when they do and when errbody doesn't bend pretty much...

Abolitionists exhort Darren Yarbrough, owner of Yarbrough & Sons Heat and Air, as well as First Baptist Church of Blanchard, OK, to repent.Here is the explanation of the events leading up to this call to repentance.Here is the explanation of the aftermath.Soli Deo Gloria...

Here's a good indicator of one reason why American churches are so pitifully inept.At the 57m31s mark of the latest episode of the Dividing Line, James White takes a call from someone who seems to be a pastor, asking in essence if it would be OK for him to expose his congregation to a scenario in...

I probably shouldn't waste my time with people like @EvangelicalPope, but I guess I've tangled with worse. And better.Anyway, here we have more griping that I would dare to expose evil and speak out against injutice comes from the pen of this person who is either a 2nd grader or a high school junior riddled with government skulage. It's tough to...

"Even here, however, we are going to face opposition and pushback—largely from fellow evangelicals. I can think of only one remedy for this problem, and it has to start in the pulpits. Absent this initiative, it falls to parachurch ministries and individual Christians to state the truth. This is where we’re at." ()So... when...

A friend told me about this article:

Filter: Anti-abortion folks take fetus pics to art walk

Included in that article is an invitation to rebut:

Perhaps the folks at AbolishAbortionOK.com can view this critique as an offer to submit a 500- to 800-word commentary for publication on our digital forum.

So I contacted NonDoc and they have remained true...

Why is it that sinless perfectionists give themselves so easily to intellectual dishonesty and sin when they are questioned? I thought they were perfect. Guess not.Sadly, @Cry Aloud, Marvin Heiman, an immature and hateful street preacher in the Nashville area, has decided that he loves division from Christians and self-exaltation rather than...

A friend asked my thoughts on this article by one Chuck Baldwin. Its beginning and middle are of pretty poor quality, but toward the end it starts to improve.--Muslims aren't "a people".  Islam is a religion. Its adherents could be any ethnicity.What binds Muslims together (to the extent that they are indeed bound together, which is not a...

So there's this:

When other groups who oppose you, start using your language, you know you're winning.

Then there's this: And then there's this: Yet it's Shane Dodson and Marcus Pittman who are changing the...

One Daniel Courney . I heartily endorse almost all of this defense of that which needs no defense and so reproduce it here.======

Though there are many more reasons, here are 15 defenses of street/open-air preaching I wrote out this morning in response to a brother's request:

1. Street preaching is the foremost method...

The ceremony of my marriage was carried out inside a building that most people refer to as a "church".The ceremony mostly occurred on the same platform from which the pastor man usually lectures the same people every Sunday morning and evening.The ceremony was officiated by a clergyman who had also performed premarital counseling for my...

Jason Engwer made the following excellent observation:

I recently heard somebody commenting on how Christians often use Facebook, Twitter, and other media to do things like post photographs of their children and discuss sporting events, yet say nothing about subjects like God and the Bible. I've been astonished by how many people's Facebook...

Certain street preachers of some popularity take every opportunity they can, it seems, to warn their readers/listeners against making evangelism and open-air preaching a "mistress" and thus neglecting family, marriage, and the more "mundane" (as it were) aspects of church membership.Yes, that happens, here and there. Yes, nobody should neglect...