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Christians and Politics: Engaging A Wider Community [1]
In the Evangelical spectrum of Christianity, engagement most commonly occurs with the right wing of the political spectrum. We shall attempt here to discuss why this is so, and how this could contradict with other Christian viewpoints of society. As evangelicals, we are well aware that a lot of political engagement in our part of…
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Race Relations In America: Nation And Church Divided [2]
Since we wrote last week, these matters have been the subject of ongoing debate within church and other communities. The biggest issue remains the widespread support that evangelical churches have traditionally given to conservative politics around the world. As we noted previously, there is still a standout element which continues to blindly champion these causes,…
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Race Relations In America: Nation And Church Divided [1]
Once again, racial tensions in the USA are in the spotlight again with the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota. We’re not sure what we can add to the debate, but we can draw upon the resources of those in the Church who are at the forefront of the action, and clearly one of the…
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Discipleship and Discipline
As Christians we are sometimes known as “disciples of Christ”. We of course get that word from its use in the Bible, where in the four Gospels it referred to Jesus’ core team of 12. Dictionary.com lists “disciple” with four definitions, the first three of which are related to Bible or church, and only the…
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Christian Politics Should Naturally Align To Centre
A couple of months back we commented on the simplistic short term theological focuses that dominated New Zealand churches. Since writing this we have had more opportunity to reflect upon where we believe Christians should be most focused in the political spectrum in New Zealand. It’s relevant to have a look at where parties focused…
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NZ Church is dominated by simplistic short-term theological focuses
This week the NZ Parliament introduced the Abortion Legislation Bill and it also passed the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill. Both issues are attracting understandable controversy in the NZ Christian community. However the responses to it from a Christian perspective are, as usual, dominated by conservative viewpoints, with Family First rushing out numerous releases and…
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Review: Trumpocalypse
[Disclaimer: We have not read the book in full and are mainly relying on the advertising material and our extensive knowledge of “end times” activism] “Trumpocalypse” is the title of a book by “internationally recognised prophecy expert speaker and author” Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson. We decided to check out these claims first off and…