Sublime

Jesus, the disciples, Paul, Philip, and others are confrontational in their approach. Jesus challenged lies with truth; He insisted on allegiance in the face of false allegiances; and he confronted unholy power with God’s power. I reject Anderson’s claim that Acts and the Synoptic Gospels cannot fully inform our practices within this ministry. In

As people isolated and avoided contact with others, there was a steep rise in the consumption of media online. Coupled with widespread biblical illiteracy in the church, people were being regularly discipled in everything but a Christian worldview, whether from exposure to videos, memes, blogs, or television shows. Our worldview is constructed from

my strategy is “Schaefferian” in the sense that my primary audience is not just philosophers but practitioners—more specifically, Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world, as well as searching inhabitants of this postmodern world. As such, these essays are not an academic project per se.

This is the pastoral posture we are exhorted to in 1 Peter 5:3: “not domineering.” There are lots of ways pastors become domineering over those in their charge, but the first step is usually to remove oneself more and more from them. When the local church body stops being “the flock of God that is among you,” it becomes much easier to treat them as

We encourage you to reach out to your pastor and ask him to pray for you and hold you accountable. Pastors who blog have to submit to this same kind of accountability—or at least they should. It’s a blessing to have pastor-elders who read our blogs, providing advice and accountability for our writing ministry.