{"id":1943,"date":"2011-10-06T21:35:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T05:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/10\/06\/the-jakes-shakes-continue\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T21:35:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T05:35:57","slug":"the-jakes-shakes-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/10\/06\/the-jakes-shakes-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"the Jakes-shakes continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconvergenceblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/concerning-associations-and-discernment.html\">Another blog<\/a> reacting to the <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesmacdonald.com\/blog\/?p=9055\">TD Jakes invitation and defense<\/a> by James MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this one interesting is\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That the author is a pastor in the Harvest Bible Fellowship, James MacDonald\u2019s organization.<\/li>\n<li>That the author is a graduate of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary<\/li>\n<li>That some of the author\u2019s co-bloggers are also graduates of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. (One is the son of a very close friend from \u2018back in the day\u2019.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given those connections, the separatistic bent of the blog post makes a bit more sense. (Although it remains to be seen if actual separation will take place.)<\/p>\n<p>Along with making the post make a bit more sense, these facts raise some interesting questions:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do graduates of DBTS end up in a Harvest Bible Fellowship church?<\/li>\n<li>How do graduates of DBTS end up attending Southern Seminary?<\/li>\n<li>What will these young men do now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems that this incident is a bit of a wake-up call to the Conservative Evangelical wannabes we seem to be producing in fundamentalist schools.<\/p>\n<p>These kinds of associations are the fruit of evangelicalism. If you move into evangelicalism, you will inevitably find yourself in some partnerships that are exceedingly uncomfortable, especially for someone who still holds on to at least some of their fundamentalist instincts instilled by their fundamentalist church backgrounds and schools.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s got to be a bit of a shocker for these young fellows. I\u2019ll be interested to see if they do what they must do \u2013 break fellowship with James MacDonald.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"don_sig2\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/don_sig21.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another blog reacting to the TD Jakes invitation and defense by James MacDonald. What makes this one interesting is\u2026 That the author is a pastor in the Harvest Bible Fellowship, James MacDonald\u2019s organization. That the author is a graduate of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary That some of the author\u2019s co-bloggers are also graduates of Detroit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[37,71,140,77,68,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-vl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}