1 Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016In Not Of Dr. Jim Grant Pastor Heartland Baptist Church Alton, Il Preachbewteenthelines.com Blog Twitter – nappy1955 Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016
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4 Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016In Not Of But In Living in the World Influence of the World Worldviews Biblical Convictions Cultural Shifts in the Church Cultural Shifts in Personal expressions of Faith Many advocate that the church must embrace culture to be relevant – Being in and of the world to make an impact Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016
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7 Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016In Not Of How Relevant is the Church today? What makes it Irrelevant? What is the Line between IN and not OF? Negotiables The decline of faith in younger generations says that we are NOT IN the world much anymore Called the Unaffiliated Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016
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9 Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016In Not Of Your Church is irrelevant if: 1. Your worship leader is not wearing skinny jeans! 2. Your youth pastor is still trying to sell the leadership team on the importance of MySpace. 3. The last 6 songs you’ve introduced for worship are songs 1-6 on Chris Tomlin’s album “Burning Lights” 4. Your Youth group is not named one of the following… Ignite, Fuel, Reverb, The Mix, Blaze, Impact or amplify. 5. The last 4 sermon series have been “stolen” logos from “culture” (sorry, but this one is my biggest pet peeves ) 6. The lead pastor teaches every Sunday wearing a “sweet” Hawaiian shirt to show he is a “man of the people” 7. 1/2 of your kids ministry budget is used for purchasing more “Felt Board” stuff [http://joshblankenship.me/9-signs-your-church-is-becoming-irrelevant/] Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016
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13 Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016In Not Of But In Secularized culture has led to corrosion in the church The secularization of our culture has had a corrosive and devastating impact on the church [Christians] are largely assimilated to, and digested by, a culture that bleaches out strong religious convictions in the name of liberal tolerance and dulls our longings for the supernatural with a river of practical atheism in the form of consumer goods. The Church of our baptism is salvific. The Church where many Americans really worship, the Church we call our popular culture, is therapeutic. This false, therapeutic “church” is an apostate church according to Archbishop Chaput. Apostasy is an interesting word. It comes from the Greek verb apostanai – which means to revolt or desert; literally ‘to stand away from.’ [Christians] … don’t need to publicly renounce their baptism to be apostates. They simply need to be silent when their … faith demands that they speak out; to be cowards when Jesus asks them to have courage; to ‘stand away’ from the truth when they need to work for it and fight for it” Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016
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19 Tolerance in Generational/CultureMedia Possibilities Podcast Blog Twitter MP3 Café’s Web page Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016
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21 Tolerance in Generational/CultureGenerational and Cultural Impact No Truth “No absolutes” Relativism/Experience overrides facts/truth Pluralism – meshing of culture and tolerance Civil Rights –Racism; Black and LGBTQA same Politics – Entitlements Gender/Sexual Orientation 3.8% not 23% If the Church embraces/looks like the World, it is no longer relevant Relevancy has to do with the goal or objective and the actions taken to achieve the objective. Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016
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23 Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016What really Matters Books for Further Reading Every Square Inch – Bruce Riley Ashford UnChristian – Kinnaman & Lyons Sticking Points – Haydn Shaw Generational IQ – Haydn Shaw 4th Turning – Strauss/Howe Onward – Russell Moore Counter Culture – David Platt Maximum faith – Barna The End of White Christian America – Robert Jones Good Faith –Kinnaman and Lyons The Race to Save our Century – Jones & Zmirak Broken-Down House – Paul David Tripp Presenter - Dr. Jim Grant 11/2016