At the back end of last year I offered a brief response to an article in Evangelical Times called “Why I escaped the so called Calvinistic charismatics”. The article seemed primarily to be focused on New Frontiers, the family of churches which our church is part of. I wrote to the newspaper asking for permission… Continue reading In defence of the Reformed Charismatics
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Update on responding to Evangelical Times concerning New Frontiers and Reformed Charismatics
Readers will know that I wrote to Evangelical Times asking them for the opportunity to respond on behalf of reformed charismatics to an article they published in November called “Why I escaped the so called calvinistic charismatics”. I thought it would be helpful to share my correspondence with them here to give an update. I… Continue reading Update on responding to Evangelical Times concerning New Frontiers and Reformed Charismatics
A brief preliminary response to Evangelical Times on New Frontiers
I note that Evangelical Times have published an article titled “Why I escaped from the so called Calvinistic Charismatics”. It is behind a pay wall so I’ve not been able to read the full article and offensive/ ignorant headlines of that kind are unlikely to persuade me to take out a subscription. I believe ET… Continue reading A brief preliminary response to Evangelical Times on New Frontiers
Leaving and cleaving: Reflections on questions that don’t seem to get as much attention in the current debate about Anglican futures.
I posted this question on Facebook the other day Why is the case for evangelicals in the Church of England always put in terms of why they shouldn’t (or even sometimes, should) leave the Church of England and not why they should/shouldn’t join with other Evangelicals? I’m planning to write a bit more about this… Continue reading Leaving and cleaving: Reflections on questions that don’t seem to get as much attention in the current debate about Anglican futures.
So if not TGC UK, what is it that the UK church needs?
I recently wrote in response to Affinity UK’s announcement that they were heading up an initiative to launch a UK version of The Gospel Coalition. My initial response was to ask some questions because I genuinely wanted to understand what was behind the proposal, what it was that the proponents were trying to achieve. I… Continue reading So if not TGC UK, what is it that the UK church needs?
How did complementarianism end up becoming a boundary marker?
This was a question asked the other day on twitter. It was expressed I believe as a lament as much as a question. There are Christians who stand foursquare with other evangelicals. They believe the Bible to be God’s inspired word, without error. They confess that Jesus died on the cross to bear the penalty… Continue reading How did complementarianism end up becoming a boundary marker?
A genuine grace saturated culture? Don’t lose the challenge
This is kind of a postscript or P.S following my two articles on Evangelical futures. There’s a further PPS to come in a few days where I want to talk about the positive aspects of Australian/Sydney Anglican influence on UK Evangelicalism. In this article I want to talk about two linked things that primarily are… Continue reading A genuine grace saturated culture? Don’t lose the challenge
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