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The blogs I read are a buzz with chatter about the hard words Mark Driscoll brought to the Anglican church in Sydney at a recent conference. I can understand some of the criticisms against what Mark had to say but I have to applaud his bravery for saying it as he sees it!
(Find a summary here. Scroll to “talk 2″ for the 18 points of criticism he brought)
I have a deep stirring in my heart that many church denominations all over the world need to hear hard words like these spoken into their context. And I can’t think of a group that needs to hear it more than our own Baptist Union of Southern Africa. I am not saying that everything he said about the Anglican church in Australia applies to the BU, but rather that we too need a hard, honest and clear evaluation of this sort. Where are the apostles of the BU, who can call our Union back to the heart of God?
We have become very good at maintaining the status quo to avoid offending those who are standing in the way of much needed change but we are weak at mobilizing our churches to be effective missional communities that are changing lives with the gospel and changing culture through God given influence.
Sometimes it does not matter so much whether every little detail of what is said is accurate but rather that the message hits home! The church in South Africa needs to wake up, today as never before we have the chance to turn this country upside down with the message of TRUTH and real compassion in action!
So much of the way we live has to do with the way we see life. But from what I gather, in conversation with many believers today, very few Christians see the world the way God does! At the end of the day this boils down to how well we know what God has to say, and for us conservative types that is the Bible!
Read Mark’s comments on why every believer should study the Bible regularly!
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