Our Marathon Series on “Missions, Culture and Being Biblical” was launched on September 17th, 2014. While there were other issues being addressed there was a lot of focus in our series on the Insider Movement and the problem of faulty theology driving one’s missiology and one’s contextualization of the Gospel. I felt that Solid Christians addressing the problem with the Insider Movement and their approach towards Mission was long overdue and I am glad to see the last two years an increases of Christian theologians addressing this problem. Below is an “index” to the posts in our series.
Essays by SlimJim
Quick Thoughts on Question of those who never Heard
A Bad Theology of False Religions in Contemporary Evangelical Missionary Thought?
Missionary Contextualization understood in light of the relationship between Culture and the Bible
Messianic Mosques and Messianic Muslims? Taking on Shah Ali’s South Asia Report NEW
Faulty Ecclesiology in two Insider Movement Case Studies NEW
Insider Movement’s John Travis view of Apologetics and Islam NEW
Concerns for C. Peter Wagner on the Cutting Edge of Missions Strategy NEW
Is it True Anyone Can be a Missionary if they Speak English?
Missions: Distinguishing between Relief and Transformational Development
Reviews
Book Review: The Road to Reality
Review: Conquer Your Fear, Share Your Faith by Kirk Cameron, Ray Comfort
Other Online Resources
Reformed Forum Critique of the Insider Movement and resources recommended
PCA General Assembly Report on the Insider Movement
Uncommon Ground: Critique of Insider Movement by Jay Smith David B.
Garner’s 5 Part Series on Insider Movement over at Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Video: Piper Responds to the Insider Movement | The Domain for Truth
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[…] In our September blog’s series “Mission, Culture and being Biblical” we gave special attention to the danger of the Insider Movement in which their philosophy of missions were evaluated biblically and logically. In particular, we noted that the Insider’s Movement’s method of doing missions suffer from the defect of having an unbiblical theology of other religion, an unbiblical view of culture and an unbiblical theology of the church. Here we also want to focus on the Insider Movement’s faulty view of apologetics and while the movement is not monolithic and not everyone will necessarily share the same view of apologetics, we will focus more narrowly on the teaching of a key leader of the movement name John Travis. What he has to say strongly resonate with those in the Insider Movement. We will examine Travis’ view of apologetics as part of his missionary approach towards Muslims found in his essay titled “Must all Muslims Leave ‘Islam’ to Follow Jesus?” This essay is from the fourth edition of Perspectives on the World Christian Movement : A Reader. At the least I hope that this post can encourage those within the Insider movement to think more along the lines of what Scripture has to say about apologetics. […]
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