Blog Suggestion
April 29, 2007
Thanks to Cory Miller at Church Communications Pro, I’ve come across a blog that I think will very soon make it to my Blogs Worth Reading list (in the sidebar, if you’ve never seen it). Dr. Mark DeVine, who takes advantage of his name by blogging at DeVine Theology, is a professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He may not be a stranger to Charleston readers of IsaiahSix because he is the former pastor of Sycamore Baptist Church. And proving this is indeed a fallen world, he is a graduate of Clemson University. :-)
What has drawn me to Dr. DeVine’s writings is his deep-seated interest in approaching this issue of the emerging church with fairness. While some (many) are willing to discard anything at all remotely associated with the emerging church (to the Kingdom’s detriment), Dr. DeVine serves as a welcome and respected voice of reason. As I’ve argued before, let’s discuss and critique the issues that need to be critiqued, but let’s be fair in the process and not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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Greg, thanks for the link!
Dr. DeVine is making an invaluable contribution to this whole conversation (or debate). He’s as solid as they come. I hope our Southern Baptists brothers and sisters don’t get caught up in secondary issues, lump all “emerging” types into one broad category … and in the process, like you said “throw the baby out with the bath water.”
–Cory
Thanks for stopping by, Cory. We evangelicals have a habit of thinking if something isn’t all good (according to whatever our definition of “good” is), it’s no good. The more I study Scripture and think about how we do things, the more I realize that just isn’t right.
Absolutely, take to task those ideas or practices that need to be brought under Scriptural authority. But just because those kinds of things might exist (and they do in every entity) doesn’t mean there isn’t some good to find and learn from, too.