"Church planters"?
FLOUNDERS' "CHURCH PLANTERS" --MORE "BLOW" THAN "GO"?
I have been watching the Flounders ("Tom and Tim Show") in regard to their alleged "church planting." I don't want to become totally skeptical, but from my reading of their websites, blogs, twitters, etc. it just seems that there is more "blow" than "go" in these fellows. They spin the "talk," but where is the "walk"?
They apparently have plenty of time to peck on their computers, attend meetings, travel around the country for conferences, try to reply to "anti-Calvinists" and "non-Calvinists," and engage in other miscellaneous activities, but if they have been out in the "highways and hedges" in an effort to win souls and establish a church, somehow I have not come across references to their activities.
Brister, after leaving Southern seminary where he was taught the Pedobaptist "regeneration precedes faith" heresy, has been in Florida for several months, and if he has engaged in any of what he calls "missional" work, it has escaped me. Ascol has claimed that the Flounders have planted churches, but if they have done so, where are they?
posted by Bob L. Ross @ 12:33 PM
2 Comments:
BRISTER "PASSING
THE BUCK"?
Ian emailed Bob this comment:
I read your article dated today about Founders and church planting. Brister's current article on "Planting Church" (http://timmybrister.com/2008/12/17/planting-church/) was being planned a few days ago (http://twitter.com/timmybrister/status/1056239826). I find it amusing that he has no experience other than what he has read in books and he putting himself forward as a champion of church planting, and this without even having the Grace church plant up and running. I understand he majored in missions and evangelism at SBTS, yet it does not seem to have translated into practical ministry in order to have something of value to pass on to others.
Ian
Yes, I agree. I read Brister's article, and I got the impression that he is trying to "pass the buck." He's got all that seminary training behind him, and he has immersed himself in reading and writing about church planting, but he has apparently missed the first word in the Great Commission -- which is GO He must think "Go" is that icon on the web address bar of his computer.
BRISTER "PASSING
THE BUCK"?
Ian emailed Bob this comment:
I read your article dated today about Founders and church planting. Brister's current article on "Planting Church" (http://timmybrister.com/2008/12/17/planting-church/) was being planned a few days ago (http://twitter.com/timmybrister/status/1056239826). I find it amusing that he has no experience other than what he has read in books and he putting himself forward as a champion of church planting, and this without even having the Grace church plant up and running. I understand he majored in missions and evangelism at SBTS, yet it does not seem to have translated into practical ministry in order to have something of value to pass on to others.
Ian
Yes, I agree. I read Brister's article, and I got the impression that he is trying to "pass the buck." He's got all that seminary training behind him, and he has immersed himself in reading and writing about church planting, but he has apparently missed the first word in the Great Commission -- which is GO He must think "Go" is that icon on the web address bar of his computer.
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