Chris Hubbs
I'm a mid-30s engineer and software nerd from the Midwest. Married and father to three daughters, I lead worship occasionally at our EFCA church. While I won't ever be keeping up with some of our fellows on the fine points of Lutheran doctrine, I enjoy providing grist for the Tavern's conversation mill.
Chris Hubbs writes:
The disappointment
You know, you enjoy somebody’s writing, you start feeling inclined to take their side on some topics, and then they take a tweet pretty far out of context and use it as impetus to tie together all the things they hate most about Calvinism with the mess of the SGM’s abuse allegations and leave it [...]
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FP, you say “it’s not true”, but then you go on to argue a completely separate point. I’m not sure when your evangelical CCM-listening days were, but sheesh, if you’ve not listened to CCM radio in the past decade, let me tall you, it’s awful. Sure, the songs reflect, as you say, “the experience of [...]
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Jennifer Knapp on our evangelical culture
From an interview over on RHE’s site today: If CCM [Contemporary Christian Music] is nothing more than a marketing tool for Christianity, then it will never allow for the full cultural expressions of human failure that true artistry demands. This is why, time after time, those artists who actually write about the experience of being [...]
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RENT thinkers, HIRE doers?
Yeah, as much as I want to hate on the megachurches with their espresso bars, I think Stetzer is probably right, and that they’re actually effective at bringing in large numbers of people. I have more questions about the level of discipleship they can provide, but then, I have the same questions about my 500-member [...]
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Randy, I haven’t actually read the book. When it came out I remember thinking something was a good bit off when the author put on his best “aw shucks” routine whilst everyone in his network trotted out round after round of glowing testimonials. (As Challies said in his review of the book, CJM was, “from [...]
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But the greatest of these is doctrine.
Brian emailed me today’s Challies post, in which Mr. C tells us: don’t be deceived; regardless of how much humility Pope Francis appears to demonstrate, he’s not actually humble unless he: Renounces the fundamental claim that the pope is the Vicar of Christ. Renounces the claim of papal infallibility. Revokes the church’s anathema of the [...]
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A little side-by-side comparison
I got to experience an interesting juxtaposition last Sunday as I sat in as a worship band member at a local PC(USA) church (they’re going to have me lead music next month, so this was my familiarization visit), then went home, picked up the family, and went for the late service at the EFCA church [...]
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When the discernment shoe is on the other foot
Jason, Matthew, I’m a bit less sympathetic for Mr. Challies. While he was perhaps unfairly represented by a certain discern-o-blog, it’s a bit ironic that the guy who has been the preeminent professional neo-Reformed discern-o-blogger (he wrote a book called The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment, for goodness sakes) gets the tables turned on him. Interestingly [...]
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Learning from Lesbians
OK, time for something new. Over on Jesus Creed this morning there’s a challenging piece from Jeff Reed, wherein he describes what he has been learning from the two lesbians who have been attending his church. It’s challenging because Reed isn’t hesitant to acknowledge that their sexual behavior is sinful, but still recognizes the Holy [...]
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Or, to put it another way…
…that wiki article would appear to be evidence proving that fundamentalist Christians don’t have an exclusive claim on ignoring scientific and historical evidence when it doesn’t fit their narrative.
