by Dawson Jarrell | Oct 5, 2022 | Christian Ethics, Christian Living, Ecclesiology, Spiritual Growth
Identifying Toxic Church Cultures (Part Two) Scot McKnight gives Eight false narratives that toxic churches often tell to protect themselves. In Part one we looked at the first four false narratives. In this post, we will look at three more false narratives, leaving...
by Dawson Jarrell | Oct 5, 2022 | Christian Ethics, Christian Living, Ecclesiology, Spiritual Growth
Poison in the Pound-cake: Identifying Toxic church cultures Scot McKnight in his book “A Church called Tov” gives Eight false narratives that toxic churches often tell to protect themselves. The narratives are something like institutional defense mechanisms. When...
by Dawson Jarrell | Aug 16, 2022 | Christian Ethics, Doctrines
God’s Self-identification and Gender The church today needs to recover a simple priority. In theology, it is called the priority of the Father–Son relation over the Creator–creature relation [1]. Simply put, it is the proposition that before God was creator he...
by Dawson Jarrell | Jul 13, 2022 | Christian Ethics, Church History
Abortion Arguments Old and New I recently over-heard a coffee house patron clam that ancient people could not practice ‘abortion’ like we do today. Ancient people did not even understand the female biology. Likely this ignorance was a case of chronological snobbery....
by Dawson Jarrell | Jul 13, 2022 | Christian Ethics
Why Is the New Testament Silent about Abortion? Christians in the coming years will be asked questions like, why is the New Testament is silent about abortion? if abortion is so important, Why did Jesus not speak about the subject? If Paul loved the unborn – Why...
by Dawson Jarrell | May 24, 2021 | Christian Ethics, Doctrines
Ethics of Heresy (Part Two) Drawing the Line Determining “Heresy” is all about where to draw the line. It is both a doctrinal and an ethical question. Ultimately it is something we aim at much like a bulls eye. It is equally misguided to draw the boundaries too...
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