Know your Theology
There are several other blogs that I read on occation and most of them have to do with church issues. I don't feel like people in my church always speak the same language and care about the same issue that I became used to hearing during my years going to the Chapel Hill Bible Church, so I try to fill this void in my spiritual life by reading what other people are doing in other churches around the world. I usually surf through these other blogs starting from a site called tallskinnykiwi.com because the author of this site seems to be forward-thinking and rather well connected digitally. His site offers links to dozens of other site devoted to the church and these sites have more links in turn. jumping from site to site can be rather dizzying, but also stimulating if you don't mind a bit of chaos.
So anyway, the other day, the tallskinnykiwi site posted a link to a quiz that offers to assess your theological leanings and tell you which category you best fit into. The quiz has flaws, like when Brooklynne and I answered questions the same way for inconsistant reasons, or when we agreed but answered differently because of the way we each understood the question. But a margin of error is unavoidable and I thought the questions were good to make you question what exactly you do believe. Is Jesus or the Bible the primary revelation of God (what about the holy spirit anyway)? Is there a difference between relevation and provision? Click below to take the test, or follow the "continue reading" link to see a break-down of our results.
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Just wanted to pop in my two cents on the Emerging Church (e.g. Emergent, Postmodern Theology, etc.)... actually not a personal evaluation just a note of a link that has a good synopsis of Carson's book on the Emerging Church (www.enjoyinggodministries.com). My personal take on Emergent is that I'm glad to see a.) their humility, b.) their pursuit of "authenticity" (whatever that means), c.) their willingness/desire to engage the culture. In a sentence, though, I'm just not comfortable with the way they get there (whoever "they" is this week in the midst of the "conversation"). In other words, I don't regard all of modernism to be the devil. Anyway, that's all for now.
Interesting survey, and I agree with your comments on its inherent weaknesses about not getting at the reasons. It's also thought-provoking - what do we really believe?