Israelites, Pharisees & Sadducees In The 21st Century Church

planet.
10. Heaven is not about “golden streets” any more than hell is about “flames and
torture.
Just like the others, these, too, are only a few of the core absolutes the thriving 21st
century church of the future will embrace. But they represent some of the more
important ones.
I remain hopeful.
As Saint Paul put it, “...old things are passing away. Behold all things are becoming
new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
And, none too soon, in my own opinion.
And, in the opinion of the 3,500 people who will choose to leave the 21st Century
Church before the end of this day.
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Which Churches Will Thrive
in the 21st Century?
APRIL 9, 2015 | Trevin Wax
Whenever people today say that Christianity needs to update and adapt its moral
standards for the 21 st century, I hear echoes from 100 years ago. Back then, the calls
for change had less to do with morality and more to do with miracles. But the motivation
was similar, and the results are instructive.
What rocked the early 20th century was the call of many church leaders to adapt the
Christian faith to the scientific age of discovery. One could not expect thinking men and
women to accept at face value all the miracles in the Bible, the thinking went. The
biblical testimony of the miraculous was embarrassing to an educated mindset.
In order to rescue Christianity from superstitious irrelevance, many church leaders
sought to distinguish the kernel of Christianity (the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man) from the shell of Christianity (miracle stories that came from
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