by Don Veinot | Feb 17, 2011 | Culture Driven Church, Defend the Faith, Evangelical Left, General, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
I became a Christian in the 1970s. This was a challenging and exciting time for me. I hadn’t grown up in the church and was by example (my father) and choice, an atheist prior to being persuaded of the validity and truth of the claims of Christianity. When I became a...
by Jonathan Miles | Feb 10, 2011 | General, Rick Warren, Scripture, Theology, Willow Creek Community Church
It seems that Sociology has finally started taking an interest in that amorphous moniker: “Evangelicalism.” I once had a sociologist friend describe sociology as the “Study of all things obvious.” Evangelicals have been around for a long time,...
by Don Veinot | May 26, 2010 | Church, Culture Driven Church, General, Psychology, Theology, Willow Creek Community Church
In 1975 a second movement was born with the founding of Willow Creek Community Church in the suburbs of Chicago. The founding pastor, Bill Hybels, had been strongly influenced in his thinking, which gave birth to WCCC by two individuals. The first, Gilbert Bilezikian,...
by Don Veinot | Dec 3, 2009 | Church History, Cults and Religions, Culture Driven Church, Politics, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
This past week a couple of things again demonstrated the need to ask the question as to how the church got to where it is today. The first was the falderal over The Manhattan Declaration. The number of signers is increasing daly and is nearly at 200,000. FOX News is...
by Jonathan Miles | Nov 19, 2009 | Church, Church History, Culture Driven Church, General, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
As Don mentioned last week, we are starting an extended project that I have labeled in my mind “The Culture-Driven Church.” The idea is to trace how culture (e.g. scientific, economic, spiritual, and psychological) have influenced the contemporary church...
by Don Veinot | Nov 12, 2009 | Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
As I mentioned last week, Jonathan Miles and I will be developing a series in this blog on how the church and culture have gotten to be where they are today. Nothing happens in a vacuum and as the old cliché goes, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat...
