tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post114862137954887210..comments2024-03-15T07:24:22.608+00:00Comments on Life on Wings - A Tribute to Dr Ern Baxter: Dan Bowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661120561123767936noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-1148912043023014012006-05-29T15:14:00.000+01:002006-05-29T15:14:00.000+01:00Dr Burgess - once again, you make me think. Hmmmm...Dr Burgess - once again, you make me think. Hmmmm....where WOULD (for example) Bible translation be without parachurch ministry? Point taken! I too have a hard time picturing even a whole church network taking that one on all by itself. <BR/><BR/>But parachurch ministries such as "Focus on the Family" and "Promise Keepers" are things that are very much meant to be THE ministry of the church....building strong families with strong male leadership both in homes and churches. But the church has sort of "effeminated" (heavenstoBetsy, did I just make up a word??) itself - alienating men. So they began to meet in arenas.<BR/><BR/>Another topic indeed. I'll shut up on that note. *grin*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-1148741709019199062006-05-27T15:55:00.000+01:002006-05-27T15:55:00.000+01:00An amazingly well thought out and useful sermon. ...An amazingly well thought out and useful sermon. Yes I think that so often we can conceptually voice our opinions and our hopes and our fears but when it comes to the question - so how will this look on paper - then we get stuck!!<BR/><BR/>I must confess that was my thought when I was thinking through the whole Parachurch vs Local Church issue. It is well that Newfrontiers see the local church as the ideal - yet as you rightly alluded to ... or was it Mark? I forget! How would for example Bible Translation be accomplished by any local church?!? Are local churches (dare I say even CCK Brighton) equipped to take on that role from say Wycliffe?<BR/><BR/>And the same here. We long for restoration. We believe in it! We pray for it. But how will it actually look in practice?<BR/><BR/>Thank you again Dr Ern Baxter!!<BR/><BR/>Here's another challenge: Where is the systematic Bible exposition that gives us hope for restoration? I would love to see some detail here on say - Micah 4. "The glory of the latter house ...". Because my commentaries are vastly inadequate! Just a challenge!<BR/><BR/>Dr S A J BurgessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com