Planted by Water

This seems to me to be a dreadful admission, but, after having refused to ever watch it before, I actually allowed myself to watch ’snatches’ of ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!’ My excuse for this uncharacteristic lapse of taste is that I was interested to see how the Christian commedian, Bobby Ball, got on. I won’t say anything about that!

And I could reasonably argue that Christians and Christian leaders/preachers should take an interest in what people are …

I reviewed Snyders Community of the King yesterday. Below is an extract from it that I didn’t post yesterday but I think is particularly insightful; and a very relevant and important point if we consider how Christians are to engage with the world.

The temptation to accept substitute gods and counterfeit  satans is always before the Church. At various periods in history the Church has been decieved into warring against false archenemies…….In the name of opposition to these enemies Christians have been willing to put others to death; for when the Church accepts Satan’s …

Generally speaking as I read about what Christians are saying in relation to world issues or cultural concerns they fall into two camps. Many evangelicals take a very cerebral and intellectual approach. Because they try to be informed and are actually thinking the issues through, they have some insights; but you seldom feel that a prophet of God is speaking, or that the Spirit is in it.  Then you get many charismatics-pentecostals who don’t think the issues through enough, often taking a knee-jerk reaction, or just concerned with personal life …