A Quick Diatribe

Over the past 5 years, the ministries which I lead reached almost 400 people for Christ - 396 conversions to be exact. That doesn’t include hundreds who made “re-dedications” and thousands who were discipled.

There were many factors that contributed to these successes for the Kingdom of God. Two of the most important was that I intentionally took the theology of N.T. Wright and applied it using the methodology of Ed Young.

Both Wright, Young, and those like them, with similar theologies and methodologies, have had tremendous and proven ministerial success for the Kingdom of God. But they are mocked and criticized. And not by the world, but by other Christians – mostly other Christian leaders.

Here’s the point: There are better theologies and better methodologies out there that are having tremendous, proven success for the Kingdom of God, yet Christian leaders are opening rejecting and ridiculing them and their practitioners.

At a time when the SBC is in a tremendous and predictable decline, ministers within it are publicly mocking the very ones who are actually producing the overwhelming bulk of the results.

It’s almost as if whatever’s motivating this criticism, mockery, and grumbling wants to discourage such success from occurring elsewhere. It’s almost as if Christian ministers are being unwittingly manipulated into hindering the Gospel. Funny that.