Does Doctrinal Diversity Lead to Doctrinal Indifference?

Posted on June 3, 2008

“The goal that diversity in secondary matters would be welcomed quite soon passed over into an attitude that evangelicalism could in fact be reduced simply to its core principles of Scripture and Christ. In hindsight, it is now rather clear that the toleration of diversity slowly became an indifference toward much of the fabric of belief that makes up the Christian faith.”

– David Wells, The Courage to be Protestant, 8.

Does doctrinal diversity on secondary issues necessarily lead to doctrinal indifference? If not, what keeps it from sliding into indifference?

Missional Communities @ Coram Deo

Posted on June 3, 2008

I had the joy of being with a solid, missional, Acts 29 church this weekend called Coram Deo. Though I preached on Jesus’ Cleansing of the Temple, I probably got the better end of the stick. Coram Deo is three years into church planting in Omaha, Nebraska. Bob Thune is the lead pastor and Will Walker is the pastor of Spiritual Formation (Check out Will’s book, Kingdom of Couches). Here are three of the things I learned from Coram Deo:

  1. Use Survey Monkey to monitor missional community health.
  2. Develop a Missional Community Leader Forum that requires leaders to post a weekly MC recap, as well as fostering for ongoing training and interaction for leaders.
  3. Regularly announce why we don’t really do announcements on Sunday morning.