Mark Driscoll believes that God created the world with a sermon when in Genesis “God said” ten times. Satan also preached to Adam and Eve in the temptation and has ever since preached through false prophets, such as Oprah Winfrey. Driscoll does not mention Joel Osteen’s false preaching in this chapter but he has in [...]
Archive for July, 2009
This past Saturday morning, I continued teaching the “How to Interpret the Bible for Myself” series at the Triad Baptist Bible Institute. We had a good time studying typology and I posted twice on that study. Saturday evening I participated in the ordination of a former student, David Grochowski. I know God is going to use him [...]
Review of Basic Bible Interpretation: Chapter 8 “Testing the Types and Sensing the Symbols” Part 2
Posted: July 28, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Allegorizers, Basic Bible Interpretation, Bernard Ramm, Bishop Marsh, Charles H. Steven, Dispensationalism, Dwight Pentecost, Milton S. Terry, Oswald T. Allis, Prophecy and the Church, Roy Zuck, Things to Come, Typology, Walter L. Wilson, Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
I want to continue to answers some questions on typology. In my first post I answered What is a Type? Why Should we Study Types? Because God Himself used types (Heb.8:5; 9:8-9; 10:19-20). Revelation mentions “Lamb” 29 times. Christ used types (Luke 24:25-44; John 6:32-35). I take Christ expounding Himself from the OT to the two [...]
Review of Basic Bible Interpretation: Chapter 8 “Testing the Types and Sensing the Symbols” Part 1
Posted: July 25, 2009 in Book Reviews, Hermeneutics/InterpretationTags: Allegorical interpretation, Bernard Ramm, Charles H. Stevens, Dispensationalism, Dwight Pentecost, Loraine Boettner, Postmillennialism, Protestant Biblical Interpretation, The Wilderness Journey: Christian Principles Illustrated by Israel's Desert Wanderings, Things to Come, Types, Typology
“The Old Testament can well be called the kindergarten of the Bible. Intricate doctrines, abstract truths, and metaphysical concepts involved in the story of redemption as set forth in the New Testament are broken down in the Old and laid out in pieces. Someone has said that the study of types is a study of [...]
Review of Humility: True Greatness: Chapter 5 “As Each Day Begins”
Posted: July 24, 2009 in Book ReviewsTags: C. J. Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness, John Stott, Michale Ramsey, William Wilberforce
C. J. Mahaney quotes John Stott again: “Our greatest foe is pride and our greatest ally is humility.” In this chapter, Mahaney provides a practical strategy “to weaken pride and cultivate humility.” 1. “The most consistently helpful item on the list is this: Reflect on the wonder of the cross of Christ.” Mahaney refers to [...]
Review of Vintage Church: Chapter 3 “Who is Supposed to Lead A Church?” Part 2
Posted: July 23, 2009 in Book Reviews, Pastoral TheologyTags: John Piper, Lay Elder Rule, Mark Driscoll, Plurality of Elders
Mark Driscoll makes a distinction between ruling elders, which he is not, and the teaching elder or as Driscoll calls himself, “the primary preaching pastor.” He also says that elders “should be voted in by the elders and installed as an elder by the laying on of hands by the other elders.” I disagree with [...]
Review of Vintage Church, Chapter 3 “Who is Supposed to Lead A Church?” Part 1
Posted: July 22, 2009 in Book Reviews, Pastoral TheologyTags: Complementarianism, Deaconesses, Deacons, Egalitarianism, Elders, George Knight III, Hiearchicalism, Home Kent, John Piper, Leadership, Mark Driscoll, Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, The Pastoral Epistles, Thomas R. Schreiner, Vintage Church, Wayne Grudem
This chapter in Vintage Church is summarized by Mark Driscoll in this sentence: “Elders are the male leaders of the church.” Driscoll gives a host of verses (especially 1 Timothy 2:11-3:5) to support his view which he calls “a soft complementarian interpretation of Paul’s commands.” His view permits only men to be elders or pastors [...]
Review of “The Blogging Church” Chapter 5: Reach Out
Posted: July 21, 2009 in Book ReviewsTags: Brian Bailey, Ed Young, Evan Erwin, Fellowship Church in Dallas, Gary Lamb, Jacob's Well in Kansas City, Microsoft, Robert Scoble, Terry Storch, Texas, The Blogging Church
Blogging can help your church fulfill its mission of reaching out to others. Brian Bailey gives four examples in chapter 5. First Example: When Brian learned that world renown blogger Robert Scoble for Microsoft was coming to the Dallas area, Brian invited Scoble (through a post on his blog) to visit his church, Fellowship Church [...]
Response to a previous post: The ‘Virtural Church’ by Todd Mitchell
Posted: July 21, 2009 in Book Reviews, Pastoral TheologyTags: First Baptist Church in Granite Falls, The Believer's Church, The Church for All, The Virtual Church, Todd Mitchell
My previous post was “Are Web Churches Biblical? Review of The Blogging Church.” Pastor Todd Mitchell provided his church’s website in his comment: In answer to your questions, I offer a paper I wrote a few years ago: “The ‘Virtual Church’ on the World Wide Web: Implications for Pastoral Ministry,” available in PDF and MP3 format [...]
Review of Humility: True Greatness: Chapter 4 “Greatness Demonstrated”
Posted: July 20, 2009 in Book ReviewsTags: C. J. Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness
There can be no humility or true greatness without the death of Christ. His death was the ransom paid to rescue us from our sinful pride. Jesus spoke this truth to His self promoting disciples on His way to Jerusalem to die: “For the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to [...]
