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DEVELOPING A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW

DEVELOPING A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW. Group Questions.

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DEVELOPING A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW

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  1. DEVELOPING A BIBLICALWORLDVIEW

  2. Group Questions What are the dangers/benefits to measuring a pastor, his ministry, or a church based on “results”? What kinds of “results” are typical measuring sticks in our culture? What kinds of “results” should we be looking for? Is it easy to quantify true, biblical results? What are the dangers/benefits of the shift from “the pastor as a teacher/theologian in a local church” to “the pastor as a celebrity”? Do you think genuine revival can be generated by employing particular techniques? Why/why not?

  3. Charles Malik The greatest danger besetting American Evangelical Christianity is the danger of anti-intellectualism.

  4. Dwight L. Moody It makes no difference how you get a man to God, provided you get him there.

  5. Pearcy The local rootedness of the traditional clergy had provided at least some measure of genuine accountability: Their character was known and tested in ongoing, long-term contact with a regular congregation. By contrast, the evangelist addressed mass audiences made up of strangers, who could not possibly judge his character by personal knowledge. He could dazzle them with sheer image-making and marketing hype.

  6. Charles Finney

  7. One critic… They measure the progress of religion by the numbers who flock to their standard; not by prevalence of faith, and piety, justice and charity

  8. Pearcy The more Christians sought to prop up their faith with mere emotional intensity, the more it appeared to be an irrational belief that belonged in the upper story of private experience.

  9. Basic Patterns Still Influencing Evangelicalism Tendency to define religion in emotional terms Anti-credal, anti-historical attitude Individual choice as the final determinate of belief View of the church as merely a collection of individuals who happen to believe the same thing. Preference for social activism over intellectual reflection Celebrity model of leadership

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