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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s "Velvet Elvis" – Part 5

Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on April 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Binding and Loosing
Jesus gave his disciples power: “I will give you the keys to the kingdom…” (Matt 16 and 18). Bell sees this as a gift that keeps on giving, reaching into our time and into our lives. “If we take Jesus seriously,” he says, “and actually see it as our responsibility to [...]

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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s "Velvet Elvis" – Part 4

Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Trampoline vs. Brickworld
The opposite of Bell’s trampoline metaphor of faith is what he calls “brickworld”. In brickworld, “you spend a lot of time talking about how right you are. Which of course leads to how wrong everybody else is. Which then leads to defending the wall.” In describing the structure of Brickworld Bell says,
“… [...]

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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s "Velvet Elvis" – Part 3

Posted in Books and Authors, Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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What is lost?
Ultimately the question raised by the quote is this: What do we lose if we lose the virgin birth?
I will attempt to answer it: We lose Jesus. We lose his divinity. We lose his claims about himself and the claims of the apostles about him, and that has infinite and [...]

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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s “Velvet Elvis” – Part 2

Posted in Books and Authors, Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on April 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »

All the content of this blog has been moved to: http://michaelkrahn.com/blog/
The following content can be found by clicking below:
Richard Dawkins The God Delusion click here.
Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis click here.
Pedro The Lion
Enjoy!

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Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s “Velvet Elvis” – Part 1

Posted in Books and Authors, Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on April 7, 2007 | 13 Comments »

All the content of this blog has been moved to: http://michaelkrahn.com/blog/
The following content can be found by clicking below:
Richard Dawkins The God Delusion click here.
Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis click here.
Pedro The Lion
Enjoy!

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Persecution Audio

Posted in Theology on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I wrote a couple of posts on persecution about a year ago (see below) and I came across this audio by David Calhoun — PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis.
Is Persecution the Cure?
More on Persecution (not “Moron Persecution”)

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Donald Miller

Posted in Books and Authors, Emerging / Emergent Church, Theology on February 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Donald Miller… why can’t he stick to personal reflection (which he is great at) instead of waxing theologic (which he apparently has no talent for)?
“If we hold that Jesus wanted us to ‘believe’ certain ideas or ‘do’ certain things in order to be a Christian, we are holding to heresy.”
What?
( source – http://www.donaldmillerwords.com/searching.php )

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Choice, Belief, and the Necessity of Hell

Posted in Theology on December 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

As far as believing in hell, whether you believe it is a literal, physical place of torment or a state of absolute alienation from God, it seems to me to be a necessity of logic. I feel as CS Lewis did in that if there was one idea, one doctrine I could delete from [...]

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Who are YOU to decide?

Posted in Theology on December 9, 2006 | 1 Comment »

It seems sometimes in our democracy addicted society that we believe absolutely that a group of like-minded individuals will always come up with a more comprehensive, well-tempered solution to a problem than any one individual within that group.
I have recently seen the opposite in action. During a desert survival simulation in a leadership training [...]

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