Click here, to register for the Christ-Centered Preaching and Teaching breakfast. By Jonathan Akin In preparation for the discussion of Christ-centered preaching that will be held on June 11 from 630-8AM in Houston at the SBC, I wanted to re-post a summary of my defense of Christ-centered exposition. I hope all of you will join Eric Hankins, Trevin Wax, Ed Stetzer …
Disturbing Trends at Baptist Colleges (Part 2)
Written by Jon Akin. You can view part 1 of this post here. What are we to make of all this? Let me make three observations: 1. People will continue to lose faith in the Baptist process In all three cases, we have seen a process play out where these situations were reviewed, and in all three cases it seems …
Disturbing Trends at Baptist Colleges (Part 1)
Written by Jon Akin In the last year, there have been disturbing events surrounding three Baptist state colleges/universities: Exonerated moderate theology at Carson Newman (CN) A subcommittee of the Tennessee Baptist Convention (TBC) exonerated CN as accountable to Baptist convictions in October of 2012 after a yearlong investigation. This is disturbing for 3 reasons: First, the report gives the impression …
Steve Timmis on Changing Church Culture
Written by Jon Akin I sat down recently with Steve Timmis and asked him how to move a traditional church towards biblical community. Here are some helpful insights from him on leading in a revitalization effort, but I think they are applicable to culture making in a church plant as well. Timmis argues that culture triumphs over strategy. So, a …
Aligning with Hate? Tim Tebow, Greg Doyel, & First Baptist Dallas
I was raised in a loving Christian home where my parents taught me the grace and love of Christ at an early age. However, that did not keep me from being surrounded by the trappings of fundamentalism in the Bible-belt. While my parents and pastors taught me that we are all sinners (“bad guys”) in need of the death and …
Sacrificing Our Children to Molech
One of my favorite short stories that I read in school was “The Lottery.” It tells the fictional story of a festival on June 27th in what seems to be a small, Middle America farming town. The story describes the townspeople gathering in the square while children play, women gossip, and the men talk about farming and the weather. Then, …
A Defense of Christ-Centered Exposition: A Friendly Response to Eric Hankins (Part 3)
This is part 3 of Jonathan Akin’s response to the recent post by Eric Hankins called “Jason Allen and The Gospel Project.” Part 1 of Jon’s response can be viewed here & Part 2 here. Jon’s first two points are: Christ-centered interpretation was the method of Jesus and the Apostles Christ-centered interpretation takes into account the dual authorship of the Bible and treats it as …
A Defense of Christ-Centered Exposition: A Friendly Response to Eric Hankins (Part 2)
This is part 2 of Jonathan Akin’s response to the recent post by Eric Hankins called “Jason Allen and The Gospel Project.” Part 1 of Jon’s response can be viewed here. Jon’s first point in his response is: Christ-centered interpretation was the method of Jesus and the Apostles Part 2: Christ-centered interpretation takes into account the dual authorship of the Bible …
A Defense of Christ-Centered Exposition: A Friendly Response to Eric Hankins (Part 1)
I am wholeheartedly committed to the Christ-centered exposition of the entire Bible, primarily because of biblical reasons (see below). But, as a pastor, I also have practical reasons for preaching an explicitly Christ-centered message every week. I remember preaching a message from Proverbs on the use of the tongue (in a gospel-centered way but not as explicit as it should …
5 Reasons We are Excited About the SBC in NOLA
Baptist21 is excited about what will take place at the annual SBC. It’s not too late to make plans to attend in New Orleans June 17-20th. There are several reasons we think you would be blessed to be a part of it! 1. The potentially historic election of Fred Luter as the first African-American president of the SBC. The SBC …