Ritz Lectures with McKnight
Many thanks to Tammie for pointing out the Toledo Blade article about Scot McKnight at the 2008 Winebrenner Seminary Ritz Lectures. A key quote I liked from the article (and lecture), that I also believe has merit with this blog, is this:
Today's Christian churches need to do a better job of encouraging people to ask the difficult questions, even if pastors and church leaders don't have ready answers.I think the article is pretty good. You can read it at: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/NEWS10/801120361"If we don't make a safe place, they will find a safe place and it won't be in the church," Mr. McKnight said.
posted by dan at 8:18 AM
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I pulled this quote from the story. I found it interesting as to why he thought people were leaving the church. These could be areas of preventive maintenance in our churches as well as focus areas for evangelism.
"Mr. McKnight went online to read personal stories of apostasy by people who explained why they gave up on God and quit the church. "The levels of blasphemy and articulation" were depressing, he said, but also informative.
The five main themes he found were doubts about Scripture; perceived conflicts with science; the behavior of Christians; Christian doctrine on hell, and the way the God of the Bible allows people to suffer."
How can we better address these 5 issues?
You guys might want to check out marshillchurch.org. driscoll is currently doing a series on questions that were brought to him by his congregation, and i think there's a thing or two to learn from this. his basis for the idea happened to be paul's first letter to the corinthians, which is mostly paul answer questions from those he had pastored. anyway, check it out, see what you think.
I assume you are talking about the live Q&A. While Mark preaches, the congregation can text a message/question. These questions are filtered and then given to Mark on the spot to answer. Interesting.
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