by Guest Writer | Jan 1, 2018 | Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, MCOI Journal, Political Correctness, Postmodernism, Progressives, Reliability of the Bible, Spring 2005, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Spring 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning in page 10) By Peter Simpson What should the relationship be between the church and culture? How should the constancy of the church adapt to the fluidity of culture? The church must find some...
by Guest Writer | Dec 27, 2017 | Divination, MCOI Journal, Occult, Paganism, Satanism, Sorcery, Spring 2005, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Spring 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning in page 6) John David Ferrer Part 1 in a 2-Part Look at Occultic-like Practices Within The Church and Modern Christianity “What’s wrong?” “I can’t let go of it, man.” “Let go of what?”...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 17, 2017 | Aum Shinrikyo, David Koresh, Deity of Christ, Heaven's Gate, Herbert W. Armstrong, Jehovah's Witnesses, Living Church of God, Mass Shootings, Mass Suicide, MCOI Journal, Michael Woroniecki, Shoko Ashahara, Spring 2005, Trinity, Volume 11, Waco, Wahabi Islamists, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Worldwide Church of God
(Originally printed in the Spring 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal) It was one of those “What-is-this-world-coming-to?” news days. A man walked into a church with a gun and blasted away, killing seven people, including the pastor of the church and his son, while...
by Corkey McGehee | Dec 16, 2017 | Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Spring 2005, Volume 11, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
(Originally printed in the Spring 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal on pg 15) Many are aware that the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) teaches a two-class system: One is the 144,000 who will be in heaven, and the other is the “Great Crowd” who...
by Guest Writer | Dec 11, 2017 | Academia, Bible reliable, Guarding the flock, MCOI Journal, Scripture, Volume 11, Winter 2005
(Originally printed in the Winter 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 8) INTRODUCTION The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) was formed for a single purpose-to defend the inerrancy of the Bible. It appears that postmodernism has defanged the ETS as it...
by Marcia Montenegro | Dec 9, 2017 | Brennan Manning, Buddhism, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, MCOI Journal, Volume 11, Winter 2005
(Originally printed in the Winter 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 10) “God’s first language is silence.”1Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart (Rockport, MA: Benedict’s Monastery, 1992), 57 “Progress in intimacy with God means progress toward...
