This is a blog for the recording of sermons which have been given in church but also for the recording of thoughts and questions, for thinking and the discussion of ideas about the practical outworking of the kingdom of God. Within our bounds we have much unemploymernt, social deprivation and religious tensions. We wish to celebrate who we are without rubbing anyones nose in it and to create a truly urban and working class congregation of indigenous believers.
Presbyterian Minister in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the biggest denomination in Northern Ireland
Does the election of Benedict XVI make any differance to the evangelical church? Should we be worried or should we be glad or should we just ignore it? If he has changed his mind since his days of involvement in Vatican Two what does that say about his present views of John XXIII and has he changed his mind on papal infallibility? Will this new papacy make any differance to the ecumenical moves? |
posted by Dr. Jack Drennan @ 11:09 pm
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Thanks for your contribution xbip. As evangelicals we believe in absolute truth BUT we are living in a society which believes in "choices". While we can rejoice in the stance of the Roman Pontiff on ethical isues such as abortion and Euthanesea, even if we might differ slightly when it comes to a choice between the life of the mother and the unborn child [thankfully this is increasingly less likely] it is not convincing to the post modern thinker who will not belive just because we say so. The big issue for us is how we convince the post moderns by engaging with them and also realising that our modernism is no better than their post modernism. Thoise who know about these things tell us that people today are crying out for relationships so does that give us a clue as to the tactics we should employ?
I agree. It's the old question of being in the world but noit off the world however very often we Christians are so busy in the business of the church[which actually is not the business of the church or at least we should be placing question marks at it] that we have no time left to be in the world- we have built up a whole scheme of traditional mission that we are , in this changed and changing world, left changing the deck chairs on the titanic while the boat sinks. We need to go back to the drawing boad and question everything that we do- we may well find that some things have to go and others will stay and new initiatives will be taken up. As congregations as well as individuals we need to be in the community.We need to re-discover what it means to "go into all the world..."
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