Comments on: on the cult of personality

By: Don Johnson

Don Johnson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:27:00 +0000

Man, there I go, breaking those new rules again.

Mybad!!!

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

By: Kent Brandenburg

Kent Brandenburg — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:05:00 +0000

Actually, see Don, I thought it was only fundamentalists who were hero worshipers and this was a reason to leave fundamentalism, because of its tendency toward personality based ministries. This blows that whole paradigm. Stop it!

By: Don Johnson

Don Johnson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:19:00 +0000

oops, but what's 45 miles between friends??

That comes from reading too fast.

And good quote from Strong. I am constantly urging our people to develop a personal relationship with the Lord and to grow in their knowledge of all aspects of Christian doctrine.

Still, too many depend on their weekly church attendance as the major component of maintaining their spiritual lives. It's not enough.

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3

By: Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:05:00 +0000

Hey, Don. Write this down: I agree. And I agree that it's not a problem to which fundamentalists are immune.

Way back in seminary, this statement from Augustus Strong's Systematic caught my attention:

“That minister is most successful who gets the whole body to move, and who renders the church independent of himself. The test of his work is not while he is with them, but after he leaves them. Then it can be seen whether he has taught them to follow him, or to follow Christ; whether he has led them to the formation of habits of independent Christian activity, or whether he has made them passively dependent upon himself.”

On a side note, New Life Church is in my home town of Colorado Springs, not Denver.