Showing posts with label Tim Keller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Keller. Show all posts
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Tim Keller Blog
Check out Tim Keller's new blog. I'm looking forward to reading his posts. Keller has been a favourite for a while.
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Keller Talks at Urban Plant Life
The talks Tim Keller gave at Urban Plant Life are now available here. There are four of them. Well worth listening to. These are from the conference I wrote about in a 25th February post.
Between Two Worlds can direct you to some other talks he gave while he was in Britain.
Between Two Worlds can direct you to some other talks he gave while he was in Britain.
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Tim Keller at Urban Plant Life
Dr. Keller did not disappoint. He delivered helpful talks on preaching, the city and integrative ministry. I have never received such full handouts at any conference I have attended. He clearly has spent a lot of time thinking about ministry in a city context.
One example of his creatively orthodox approach to preaching, can be found in how he handles the kinds of topics that our culture finds offensive.
He talks about "A" doctrines and "B" doctrines. "A" represents those doctrines that a culture finds attractive and "B" those that it finds offensive. These differ from culture to culture. For example, in the West people find the Christian emphasis on forgiveness an attractive doctrine, whereas God's justice and judgment offends. In other cultures it is the other way round.
He says that we can communicate the "B" doctrines on the back of "A" doctrines. He compares these two categories of doctrine to a pile of stones and a pile of logs that you want to get across a river. If you try to float the logs on the stones, it doesn't work. However, if you tie the logs together and put the stones on top, you can float the whole lot across the river.
The logs are the "A" doctrines and the stones are the "B" doctrines.
He used an example from a sermon he delivered recently on abortion. He based his appeal on the Western idea of human rights founded on the image of God in man - which Westerners find attractive and presented his pro life position (which is a divisive issue in our culture) on that basis.
I thought that approach was really good. The whole day was worth it for that one insight!
Thanks to London City Mission for hosting the event.
I hope that the talks will be made available to download. Some previous Keller talks at LCM can be found here
One example of his creatively orthodox approach to preaching, can be found in how he handles the kinds of topics that our culture finds offensive.
He talks about "A" doctrines and "B" doctrines. "A" represents those doctrines that a culture finds attractive and "B" those that it finds offensive. These differ from culture to culture. For example, in the West people find the Christian emphasis on forgiveness an attractive doctrine, whereas God's justice and judgment offends. In other cultures it is the other way round.
He says that we can communicate the "B" doctrines on the back of "A" doctrines. He compares these two categories of doctrine to a pile of stones and a pile of logs that you want to get across a river. If you try to float the logs on the stones, it doesn't work. However, if you tie the logs together and put the stones on top, you can float the whole lot across the river.
The logs are the "A" doctrines and the stones are the "B" doctrines.
He used an example from a sermon he delivered recently on abortion. He based his appeal on the Western idea of human rights founded on the image of God in man - which Westerners find attractive and presented his pro life position (which is a divisive issue in our culture) on that basis.
I thought that approach was really good. The whole day was worth it for that one insight!
Thanks to London City Mission for hosting the event.
I hope that the talks will be made available to download. Some previous Keller talks at LCM can be found here
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Tim Keller in London
Off to London today to hear Tim Keller speak at a church planting conference.
This really is a big treat. Keller has been a hero for a while and is becoming a very influential figure in the Western evangelical world. I'll let you know how I get on.
Thursday, 7 August 2008
What's out there
A couple of interesting posts on Worldchangers blog.
Making the case for medium sized churches:
http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/08/01/planting-mid-sized-churches-in-europe.html
Tim Keller on the gospel:
http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/08/04/a-new-kind-of-gospel.html - there's a link to the full article.
J. Lee Grady's blog has some sobering coverage of what is really happening in China:
http://fireinmybones.com/index.php?col=073108~In%20China,%20They%20Beat%20Christians%20With%20Crowbars
Hoping to listen to Frank Damazio's latest sermons on faith as I drive to Holyhead and then from Dublin to Northern Ireland. You can find them here:
http://www.citybiblechurch.org/p/8834/Default.aspx
Making the case for medium sized churches:
http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/08/01/planting-mid-sized-churches-in-europe.html
Tim Keller on the gospel:
http://www.steveaddison.net/2008/08/04/a-new-kind-of-gospel.html - there's a link to the full article.
J. Lee Grady's blog has some sobering coverage of what is really happening in China:
http://fireinmybones.com/index.php?col=073108~In%20China,%20They%20Beat%20Christians%20With%20Crowbars
Hoping to listen to Frank Damazio's latest sermons on faith as I drive to Holyhead and then from Dublin to Northern Ireland. You can find them here:
http://www.citybiblechurch.org/p/8834/Default.aspx
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