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Covenants, Contracts, Community, Catholicism, Communism and Extra-biblical Visions (or The Shepherding Movement: Alive and Well in 2014)
There is a growing trend among evangelical churches to require members to sign a church covenant. In most of these churches, there is a legitimate desire to see the regular attenders, or members, engage in meaningful fellowship or community in order to maximize their potential for the greater glory of God. The leaders of these churches see the membership covenant as an effective tool to combat the apathy and narcissism which is so prevalent in Western culture. They would argue that biblical community is the antithesis of radicalindividualism and this individualism will continue to dominate the mindset of most churchgoers without a tangible tool like a membership covenant.
Not only does this narcissistic individualism undermine biblical community, advocates of membership covenants would contend that it undermines the vision that is cast by God-appointed leadership in the church. Vision casting is a concept advocated by Peter Drucker, (a noted Harvard…
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Truth Always Rests With The Minority.
by Maria Popova/Brain Pickings ©
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/26/kierkegaard-individual-crowd-conformity-minority/
9Marks Attempting “Brand Enhancement” — Thou Art The Man
“Across the country, parishioners are now being challenged to take oaths, perform vows and sign covenants. These things would have been unheard of in generations past for one simple reason. These things used to be forbidden, or only permitted under the gravest of circumstances. A few decades ago churches founded their beliefs sturdily…
via 9Marks Attempting “Brand Enhancement” — Thou Art The Man
EChurch@Wartburg – 9.18.16 —
Don’t Be Afraid
SSB Gathering – September 18, 2016 — Spiritual Sounding Board
Spiritual Sounding Board – This is your place to gather and share in an open format. *** Luke 19: 11 – 27 While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. He […]
via SSB Gathering – September 18, 2016 — Spiritual Sounding Board
Tell The Truth.
Don’t Be a 9Marxist!
by Velour/Mtn Shepherdess
Note: 9/17/16 This 9Marks article is about my Amazon review of my abusive former church Grace Bible Fellowship of Silicon Valley, a 9 Marks church. I didn’t know at the time I joined GBFSV that Mark Dever, founder of the 9Marks of a [un]Healthy Church in Washington, D.C. and pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church there, had simply rolled out the 1970’s abusive heavy-Shepherding Movement’s tactics complete with excommunications and shunnings. The Florida Founders of the Shepherding Movement have apologized and repented for its abuses, controlling of Christians’ lives, lack of boundaries, and spiritual abuse.
Now that the damage is being done by Mark Dever’s 9Marks to lives across the nation and in countries around the world, 9 Marks is distancing themselves from the abuses even though they’ve advocated it. I’m, by the way, a woman not a man is the only additional comment I have to make.
“Here are fifteen marks that will keep you from being a “9Marxist,” that is, a church leader who abuses their authority.”
Source: Don’t Be a 9Marxist!
Pedophiles are like Serial Killers – My Story by David Pittman
My name is David Pittman – For 30 years I’ve been keeping a secret that almost killed me. From the time I was 12 until I was 15, I was sexually abused by my youth minister at Rehoboth Baptist Churc…
Source: Pedophiles are like Serial Killers – My Story by David Pittman
Changed By Breaking Bread With People Like Jesus Did.
By Velour/Mtn Shepherdess ©
“I dare you to break bread with the people that Jesus broke bread with. It will change you.”
from Jory Micah’s website: http://www.jorymicah.com/
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Indeed this quote from Johnny Miller, posted on Jory Micah’s blog, resonates with me. I and a little old lady friend Catherine, aged 100, visited a young man named Sean who was dying of AIDS in the hospital one Christmas-season. He was all alone, abandoned by his remaining family (his mother had died when he was a boy).
GBFSV SPIRITUAL ABUSE VICTIMS' RECOVERY 