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(Yesterday on the blog: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church)
3 Steps Christian Institutions Take from Orthodoxy to Sexual Immorality
Joe Carter does some interesting analysis here. “It might be presumptuous to imply the path from orthodoxy to heterodoxy is the same for all institutions. Yet there does seem to be a recurring pattern that includes three steps.”
It would take a long time to work all the way through this spiritual MRI, but it is likely to be prove valuable to you.
Christian Maturity and Secular Infancy
“Christianity entails many divine ironies—the dead man lives; the humble woman is exalted; the servant is the King; finding life is losing it; salvation is not by works; the Son of God became man so that men might become sons of God. Another irony less noticed by many Christians is
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