God is coming back for a spotless bride, and the Church is far from being so. There will be oneness in the body of Christ based on love yes, but not at the expense of truth and holiness. The issueRead more…
Separating the holy from the profane
God is coming back for a spotless bride, and the Church is far from being so. There will be oneness in the body of Christ based on love yes, but not at the expense of truth and holiness. The issueRead more…
A 21st Century Reformation: Back to First Principles
The sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation left a profound mark not only on the church of Jesus Christ but also on the history of the Western world and, as a sequel, on the history of the whole world. Today, the state ofRead more…
A 21st Century Reformation of the Church: A Wider Welcome
During my last visit to Ethiopia I joined students at Addis Ababa University for a meeting of the Evangelical Students’ and Graduates’ Union of Ethiopia (EvaSUE). They are part of a remarkably courageous Ethiopian church that survived the repressive regimeRead more…
21st Century Reformation? A Modest Plea
Reformation is a large concept, a work of God so broad, deep and historic that it is beyond my scope, and probably that of The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. I opt for something more modest: a ’reformation ofRead more…
A 21st Century Reformation: Recovering the Supernatural
One of the big surprises of the 20th century was the dramatic growth of the churches in the non-western world. A bigger surprise was that, as Philip Jenkins asserts, those churches growing fastest are all strongly supernaturally oriented. ’In thisRead more…
From ‘Calvary Road’ to ‘Harvesters International’: An African Perspective on the Cross and Gospel of Prosperity
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Poverty, Prosperity and the Gospel.” Responses to this paper through theRead more…