Try the Books
J.C. Philpot, in a sermon we have been excerpting in Herescope for the past several days entitled “Trying the Spirits” circa 1844, concludes with a warning about books. Books?! How harmless books must have been in 1844 compared to the open heresies of our postmodern era! Yet, he implores believers…
Trying the Spirits of Vain Confidence & Irreverence
Yesterday’s post contained excerpts from “Trying the Spirits,” a sermon delivered by J.C. Philpot in 1844. Today’s post extrapolates two points from this sermon which help people to discern truth from error. Philpot introduces the second part of his sermon with this statement: II.—But let us now look at some…
Trying the Spirits
Discernment Ministries receives many requests from believers seeking to understand truth from error in these perilous times. Exercising discernment is something that each believer is required to do according to Scripture. But exercising discernment can be quite troublesome in our era of mixed and confusing messages. The other day we…
Spot the Wolf: Part 4
Another post in the continuing series by Pastor Anton Bosch. Today’s post is particularly relevant to the new and deadly form of legalism that is emerging in the church today — a formulaic legalism which utilizes the business methods of setting standards for “success,” assessing and measuring performance, and demanding…
A Pause for Edification
True Discipleship, or the Liberty of Truth “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed on him, “If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:31-32″ “…Religion is not an airy, imaginary,…
Spot the Wolf: Part 3
Part 3 in Pastor Anton Bosch’s series about how to spot wolves in sheep’s clothing. [Pastor Bosch has just finished authoring a book which will be of great assistance to those precious saints who have been “abandoned” by the Peter Drucker methods of church transformation. As soon as this book…
Discontinuous Change & Perpetual Revival
Mental Models of the Church. In the old paradigm, change occurred incrementally. The church shared the values held by the predominant culture.…“In the mission field paradigm, change is rapid and discontinuous. the gap between the value held by the church and those held by the community is clear. [Excerpted from…
Creative Destruction
Change is a constant in the knowledge society. Knowledge is very perishable. The knowledge worker must act as an entrepreneur and exercise personal management. Knowledge workers must become accustomed to the process of “creative destruction.” They must become change leaders, active in the pursuit of change, rather than becoming victims…
Dumping Mr. Edsel
[Drucker]: …Thirty-odd years ago I began to counsel that you should build organized abandonment into your system. It follows the old line that it makes more sense for you to make obsolete your own products than to wait for the competitor to do it. But this is very hard for…