An excellent book to help us on the field who are seeking to provide quality counseling from a spiritual Christian perspective. This book offers good information in how to deal with the secular protocol required while at the same time not requiring the Christian counselor. There are some interesting “counseling assistance tools” in it that [...]
Archive for May, 2007
You scored as Jonathan Edwards, You’re the original hellfire-and brimstone preacher and you take God’s justice very seriously. You are passionate about preaching and an accomplished theologian. Jonathan Edwards 73% Karl Barth 67% Friedrich Schleiermacher 60% Anselm 60% Martin Luther 53% John Calvin 33% Augustine 20% Charles Finney 7% Jürgen Moltmann 0% Paul Tillich 0% [...]
VELVET ELVIS COMPARED TO THE WILD BOAR: Part Five
Posted: May 25, 2007 by Michael Dewalt in Emergent Church, Martin Luther, Reformation Church History, Rob Bell, Scripture AloneConcluding Thoughts of Their DifferencesBell and Luther do not have much in common when it comes to the Scriptures. Bell sees that time shifts in culture should lead to a change in Scriptural revelation. He may use trendy terms or ways that may seem cool or hip to today’s audiences, but a man without Scripture [...]
VELVET ELVIS COMPARED TO THE WILD BOAR: Part Four
Posted: May 24, 2007 by Michael Dewalt in Emergent Church, Martin Luther, Reformation Church History, Rob Bell, Scripture AloneSola Scriptura and BellIn chapter two of Velvet Elvis Rob Bells tries to relay how difficult it is to come to grip with and interpret the Scriptures. Bell’s view of Scripture seems to encourage all people to believe what they want. His interpretation of Scripture tends to lend itself to multiple meanings. His use of [...]
VELVET ELVIS COMPARED TO THE WILD BOAR: Part Three
Posted: May 23, 2007 by Michael Dewalt in Emergent Church, Martin Luther, Reformation Church History, Rob Bell, Scripture AloneSola Scriptura and Luther“By Scripture alone” is the essence of the of the sixteenth-century doctrine. Many scholars see this doctrine as the main principle of the Reformation. For this is where the Roman Catholic Church erred. The Roman Church in their apostasy and perverted popes had distorted this doctrine and tried to find revelation in [...]
VELVET ELVIS COMPARED TO THE WILD BOAR: Part Two
Posted: May 22, 2007 by Michael Dewalt in Emergent Church, Martin Luther, Reformation Church History, Rob Bell, Scripture AloneI. Difference in TheologyWhen reading the works of both Bell and Luther it seems that there is a clear distinction between the two. Although a multitude of major differences exists between Bell and Luther, looking at one of the major doctrines will be sufficient to reveal that there is no theological unity amongst them. The [...]
VELVET ELVIS COMPARED TO THE WILD BOAR: Part One
Posted: May 21, 2007 by Michael Dewalt in Emergent Church, Martin Luther, Reformation Church History, Rob Bell, Scripture AloneI. Repainting or Restoring?Rob Bell states:There are endless examples of this ongoing process, so I’ll describe just one. Around 500 years ago, a man named Martin Luther raised a whole series of questions about the painting the church was presenting to the world. He insisted that God’s grace could not be purchased with money or [...]
