tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35889031.post116285120085581415..comments2023-11-05T00:58:55.352-07:00Comments on A Peculiar Prophet: New Churches, New FutureWilliam H. Willimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00002821401928222858noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35889031.post-5127265900346603012007-03-02T15:44:00.000-08:002007-03-02T15:44:00.000-08:00I still get this sense that the 'mainline' still w...I still get this sense that the 'mainline' still wants to beat up n the evangelicals. (I say that as a dedicated member of a 'mainline' denomination.) As if to say 'we were right all along'. In some ways (especially regarding open discussion of touchy issues and listening to other points of view) we were. In other ways we weren't, and we seem to be getting back to those ways as much as the other.<BR/><BR/>When that study Bp. Willimon cites says that it's about new churches, "period", I really think that they have taken a simplistic look at the situation. There's more to it than that. I think an overall sense of integrity of belief with life is a key for the growth staying for more than a few months.Bob Longmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14874440096215197147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35889031.post-1163987750007114142006-11-19T17:55:00.000-08:002006-11-19T17:55:00.000-08:00Actually this research may explain why it was thou...Actually this research may explain why it was thought that conservative churches were the ones growing - conservative churches tend to be more evangelistic and start new churches. In your book "Good News for Exiles" you and your partners seemed to agree that evangelism was not as important to "liberal, mainline" churches.Bob Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461895460860113802noreply@blogger.com