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What Is Wrong With The Church?

What Is Wrong With The Church?. The Dilemma of Laodicea Revelation 3:14-22. Laodicea. LAO = Peoples (laity) DICHAOMAI = Opinion, Judgments The Church of People’s Opinions. World Views. When World Views Change Science Technology Economy

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What Is Wrong With The Church?

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  1. What Is Wrong With The Church? The Dilemma of Laodicea Revelation 3:14-22

  2. Laodicea LAO = Peoples (laity) DICHAOMAI = Opinion, Judgments The Church of People’s Opinions

  3. World Views When World Views Change • Science • Technology • Economy Social, Cultural, & Political – World View Changes

  4. World Views Paradim Shift • Reformation (End of Feudalism) • Revivalists (End of Agriculturalism)

  5. New World View, Gospel Must Be Re-Communicated Recontextualize/Redefine • Wycliffe Translations • Inclusive Translations

  6. Judaic to Greco Roman – 1st Century / Apostle Paul (Recontextualized) • Judeo-Christian to Platonic – 4th Century /Augustine (Redefined) • Aristotelian Scholasticism – Renaissance /Thomas Aquinas (Redefined) • Christianized Humanism – 16th Century / Erasmus, Reformers (Recontextualized)

  7. Industrialism – 18th Century / John Wesley,George Whitefield (Recontextualized) • Modernism/Rationalism & Secular Humanism – 19th Century / Bultmann, Wellhausen, Spong, Thiering, Jesus Seminar) (Redefined)

  8. Post Modernism • The Current Challenge

  9. Consumerist – Faith Prosperity • Psychologized – Christian PSYCHOLOGY (12 steps, etc., motivational speaking, positive thinking) • Multi-Faith – Ecumenical & Inter-Faith

  10. Experiential, Relativism – Charismania, Subjectivism, New-Gnostic Eisegesis • Media Driven – Electronic Church (Entertainment as Worship) • Politicized – Pulpit Politics (Left & Right) • Intammatic – Deliverance

  11. Programmatic – Alpha, 40 Days, Prayer of Jabez, etc. • New Age – Fourth Dimension, Toronto Experience, Emergent Church (labyrinths, yoga, prophetic visualization, prayer exercises) Redefinition!

  12. Caveat of Jesus – Matthew 15:3 ‘The Inventions of Men Are Not The Precepts of God’

  13. “A Day Will Come When Instead of Shepherds Feeding The Sheep, Churches Will Have Clowns Entertaining The Goats” Charles Spurgeon

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