This should be the final post in this series, after having introduced the topic, praised some of its impulse, criticized notions of perfection in the early church and a disregard for history. Now, on to my final bit of criticism, and hopefully a word about how to go forward. I only addressed one part of the […]
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My last post in this series criticized the assumption that the early church was somehow perfect and we should therefore attempt to be just like them. This post will criticize the other assumption in the myth of primitive perfection, that this is something which we could even do if we wanted to. The problem with this […]
Now that I’ve praised part of the impulse lying behind the myth of primitive perfection (that we can be a “New Testament” church), it’s time to address some criticisms of this paradigm. The first major criticism of this paradigm is that it assumes that the NT church was somehow perfect. It was not. It requires a […]
In my last post, I outlined the typical evangelical narrative regarding their status as a “New Testament” church. These blessed and wise souls have somehow managed to transcend the past 2000 years or so and have landed themselves right back amongst the book of Acts! If you sense that I have some heavy critique of […]
I’ve been in and around Anabaptism and Evangelicalism for most of my life up and until this point, and I’m continually amazed by the amount of assumptions that I uncover. Today I’m going to tackle one such assumption that has only recently achieved the level of conscious recognition. The typical story that is told in these […]
Here’s a great bit from William Willimon, preacher extraordinaire. Read and follow the link at the end for more! Sometimes in leaning over to speak to the modern world, I fear that we may have fallen in! When, in our sermons, we sought to use our sermons to build a bridge from the old world of […]
