by Don Veinot | May 26, 2010 | Church, Culture Driven Church, General, Psychology, Theology, Willow Creek Community Church
In 1975 a second movement was born with the founding of Willow Creek Community Church in the suburbs of Chicago. The founding pastor, Bill Hybels, had been strongly influenced in his thinking, which gave birth to WCCC by two individuals. The first, Gilbert Bilezikian,...
by Don Veinot | Dec 3, 2009 | Church History, Cults and Religions, Culture Driven Church, Politics, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
This past week a couple of things again demonstrated the need to ask the question as to how the church got to where it is today. The first was the falderal over The Manhattan Declaration. The number of signers is increasing daly and is nearly at 200,000. FOX News is...
by Jonathan Miles | Nov 19, 2009 | Church, Church History, Culture Driven Church, General, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
As Don mentioned last week, we are starting an extended project that I have labeled in my mind “The Culture-Driven Church.” The idea is to trace how culture (e.g. scientific, economic, spiritual, and psychological) have influenced the contemporary church...
by Don Veinot | Nov 12, 2009 | Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
As I mentioned last week, Jonathan Miles and I will be developing a series in this blog on how the church and culture have gotten to be where they are today. Nothing happens in a vacuum and as the old cliché goes, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat...
by Don Veinot | Mar 19, 2009 | Emerging Church, General, Rick Warren, Willow Creek Community Church
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton recently said ”Never waste a good crisis.”. That seemed to bother many and without getting into the politics of the moment I am thinking there is some merit to her statement. Last week I mentioned the article The Coming Evangelical...
by Don Veinot | Aug 7, 2008 | Brian McLaren, Church, Emerging Church, Willow Creek Community Church
One of the topics I spoke on at a church retreat recently was Roman Catholicism. One of the points I made was that Rick Warren stated at the Pew Forum that he doesn’t see much difference between Roman Catholicism and what he believes. I pretty much followed the...
On issues of doctrine, that have been put forward in the public eye: I have experienced(in my active heart and…
Spot on Don. If it looks like a dog, barks like a dog, smells like a dog and behaves like…
It is my understanding that none of the Chosen was written by Mormons. It's true that Jenkins consults with a…
Well this has aged well. Don Veinot - "We talk about it in our article, “The Chosen Dilemma” and Dallas…
'For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways..." Isaish 2 reminds…