What shapes the message of the church? The Bible and Spirit? Or society and culture? Os Guinness points out perils of compromise in the church growth movement.
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OS GUINNESS (DPhil, Oxford University) was born in China, raised and educated in England, and moved to the United States in 1984. He directs the Trinity Forum and is a former fellow at the East-West Institute in New York. His books include The American Hour, No God But God, and The Dust of Death.
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This review is from: Dining With the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts With Modernity (Hourglass Books) (Paperback)
In Dining With the Devil, Guinness critiques the church-growth movement. This book is not intended to be a scholarly theological review; rather, he shares his thoughts and warnings to the churches of America as they are confronted with the issue of modernity.Should the primary guidance of the church be internal or external? Should the church be formed by the Word or by the World? At what point does change become compromise? Should churches incorporate the managerial techniques of the business world? What are the logical ends of the church-growth movement? Guinness addresses each of these questions, and I believe he answers them fairly. He doesn't say all church-growth is bad and the church should condemn it, nor does he say that all church-growth is good and the church should assume it. Rather, he warns his reader and gets him to think about each of these questions. What stand should we take on these issues? Read this book and find out for yourself.
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A Prophetic View of Purpose Driven Mentality,
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Purpose Driven Church, Purpose Driven Youth, Purpose Driven Life, Purpose Driven coffee mugs, Purpose Driven music CD, Purpose Driven Calanders, Purpose Driven screen savers, Purpose Driven Bible covers, Purpose Driven this and Purpose Driven that. Everywhere we look we see the popular themes of Rick Warren and Bill Hybels. The Church in America is running after every teaching that generates more people without questioning the teaching. Pragmatic, and sometimes unbiblical, doesn't seem to matter anymore.
Os Guinness takes direct aim at Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, C. Peter Wagner, and George Barna in this short book by addressing the seeker sensitive, megachurch mentality that exists and is being pushed in nearly every seminary in America. He writes that the Church is flirting with modernity and loosing sight of our original purpose. The Bible, discipleship, expository preaching, prayer, and living the Spirit-filled life is being ignored for numbers, results, prestiage, money. May we repent before a holy God and return to faithfully preaching the Word of God and the hard demands of true repentance. May we not continue on this down-grade.
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The greatest strength of this book is also its greatest weakness. The author does a fine job of critiquing the culturally-accommodated "ministry" of the American megachurch. His arguments and comments are right on mark. However, what the author fails to do is give enough concrete examples of churches that fit the mold he is characterizing. This absence creates a variation of the "straw-man" dilemma: many church leaders will agree with Guinness' critique, but few will believe that it actually applies to them. One would hope that leaders of American megachurches will read Guinness' book and take heed.
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- Nine Marks of a Healthy Church by Mark Dever in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way by Kimon Howland Sargeant in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- One New People: Models for Developing a Multiethnic Church by Manuel Ortiz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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