Category: Holistic Ministry

• Keller on Being Salt & Light

  Working through the Sermon on the Mount on Sunday mornings, a few weeks ago I preached from Matthew 5.13-16, the Salt & Light passage. What I explained to our congregation is that, after instrucitng us about what our attitude ought to be as citizens of the Kingdom, Jesus goes on to reveal the Influence he…

  Dennis Griffith

  February 19, 2010

  Evangelical, Holistic Ministry, Ministry, Missional

  Church & Culture, Missional, Salt & Light, Tim Keller

• Missing the Missional Mark

  To read something I disagree with on the Internet is not an unusual thing.  When what I disagree with comes from a source that I respect – highly respect – it makes me somewhat uncomfortable.   When the source I respect seems to oppose what I hold, well that is just down-right disappointing. But that is the…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 20, 2010

  Church, Holistic Ministry, Ministry, Missional, Missional Church

  9 Marks, Contextual Ministry, Contexual Mission, Holistic Ministry, John Frame, Jonathan Leeman, Mark Dever, Ministry, Missional, Missional Church, Tri-Perspectival, Tri-Perspective, Vern Poythress

• Happy Birthday, ‘Ho’!

  OK. I know. A lot of people don’t like Tony Campolo. A lot of my friends don’t like Tony Campolo. I know he’s  “too liberal”.  I know John MacArthur flatly states that Campolo “misses the central teaching of the Bible“.  I know he was once tried in ecclesaistical court for heresy.  But still, you must admit, he…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 14, 2010

  Evangelism, Grace, Holistic Ministry, Ministry

  compassion, Evangelism, Grace, Holistic Ministry, John MacArthur, mercy, Ministry of Mercy, Social Gospel, Tony Campolo, word & deed