“Lone Ranger” Christian. That is a term I’ve seen thrown around quite a bit in the last couple of weeks, referring to believers who are outside of established church structures. These people have been accused of being “anti-leadership”, “anti-meeting” and “anti-body”. I know I would be seen as fitting that “lone ranger” tag – because … Continue reading Lone Ranger
Continuing with a topic I addressed recently, I ask: “What is the REAL situation with ‘lone ranger’ Christians”? Let’s look at myself as an example. I attended the same church for around a decade. At the time I left I was the youth leader and occasionally asked to preach to a couple of hundred people in … Continue reading “Out of Church” Christians and the “lone ranger” syndrome.
John 10: 11 The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is … Continue reading Lone Rangers: where does the danger lie?
It wasn’t what I expected. The flood of Moslem refugees across Europe was constantly in the news two or three years ago, and most books I’ve recently seen about refugees have been about those escaping from Syria. I thought this would be the same, but instead the story dates back to the late 1970s, early … Continue reading Stranger No More by Annahita Parsan
Andrew Strom did a lot to promote the term “Out of Church Christians” and yet, taking a look at the majority of people he places under this label within this book, we can see how wrong the use of the term is. Strom’s label is steeped in the idea that “church” is a type of … Continue reading “Out of Church Christians”: a book by Andrew Strom.
I see the same old arguments are being made on “Revival School” about the need to be “in church” and the same kind of admonishment is being given to those who are “out of church”. I have also seen the term “lone ranger” being used a time or two in that interaction. One person involved … Continue reading In, Out and Roundabout.
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