Thanks to Doulos.

From Christianity Today:

After modeling a seeker-sensitive approach to church growth for three decades, Willow Creek Community Church now plans to gear its weekend services toward mature believers seeking to grow in their faith.

The change comes on the heels of an ongoing four-year research effort first made public late last summer in Reveal: Where Are You?, a book coauthored by executive pastor Greg Hawkins. Hawkins said during an annual student ministries conference in April that Willow Creek would also replace its midweek services with classes on theology and the Bible.

Encouraging, but…

Greg Pritchard, author of Willow Creek Seeker Services, told CT the church “sporadically has recognized it was not teaching a robust enough biblical theology and needed to turn the ship around.

“It is a huge shift,” Pritchard said of the church’s planned changes to its services. “But they’re still using the same marketing methodology. Willow appears to be selecting a new target audience with new felt needs, but it is still a target audience. Can they change? Yes, but it will take more than just shifting their target audience.”

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I was reading an interview with David Pratt, author of The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates, and he mentions two favorite quotes of his…

Quote #1:

I started collecting quotations by Nobel Prize Winners after reading Winston Churchill’s saying “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”

Quote #2:

But I suppose one of my very favorites is by the French writer Anatole France, “I have always preferred the folly of the passions to the wisdom of indifference.”

So which do you think Pratt would prefer – a passionate fanatic, or an indifferent subject-changer?

Timmy Brister may be the first person to ever post video from both the 700 Club and Mark Driscoll together.

So I want you to consider the responses as I juxtapose them here for the purpose of showing how biblically illiterate and theologically incompetent we are today to address old heresies in contemporary garb.

Courtesy of Mark Dever:

How many times did Paul write to Timothy to ask how many people were coming to the church at Ephesus? Let me see (counts on his fingers)… none.

HT: Michael McKinley