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The Myth of the Un-Qualified "Called"
The idea has long descended the merit it may once offered. It now resides in the swirl of contemporary Christian nonsense.
JM Zabick
Mar 27, 20243 min read
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Mimicking (in the Hopes of Manufacturing) the Sacred
We can blame falling away on the siren song of "the world," but the more likely culprit is that folks are simply wisening up to the façade.
JM Zabick
Aug 12, 20234 min read
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How Can I Understand Unless Someone Guides Me?
Let's identify and re-evaluate our teaching authorities in the spirit of Acts 8.
JM Zabick
Apr 27, 20235 min read
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Revival, Reckoning, or Something Greater?
Younger evangelicals are not “down” with the attractional church their Gen X parents and leaders are hell bent handing on to them.
JM Zabick
Feb 21, 202313 min read
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My Real Problem with the "Western" Church
The battle against Penal Substitutionary Atonement is yielding needless collateral damage.
JM Zabick
Jan 25, 202314 min read
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From Revival to Religion—An Evangelical Deconstruction
I accepted the yearning had developed into a call. I would return to the Catholic Church
JM Zabick
Oct 5, 202216 min read
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A Journey Home (3): From Resistance to Revival—The Early Evangelical Years
Finding Community in a Warren Assembly of God & Meeting God at a Pensacola Revival
JM Zabick
Aug 25, 202223 min read
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A Journey Home (2): From Catholic Roots to the Evangelical World
My love for God is forged in Catholicism. And a lifelong attraction to his presence, found only in this expression of faith, has endured.
JM Zabick
Jul 24, 202215 min read
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Are We Really ALL Theologians?
Theological uprising is needed if the American church is going to welcome Reformation 2.0. But don't just take the title, BECOME THE THING!
JM Zabick
Jul 14, 20229 min read
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Reformation 2.0
Catholicism has been reforming. Is Protestant evangelicalism willing to meet them in the effort toward a world church Reformation?
JM Zabick
Jul 6, 202216 min read
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The Self-Directed Church
Both society and the church are experiencing an erosion of trust and increasing division, because both are playing the same game.
Nathan Hackman
Jun 29, 202214 min read
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Reforming the Reformation
If the church of tomorrow is to become the envisioned "world church" it must embrace the totality of humanity as God's masterpiece.
Geoffrey Bruschi
Jun 22, 202211 min read
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A Journey Home: An Introduction to My Tale of Spiritual Homecoming
Part one in a set of entries chronicling my return to Roman Catholicism
JM Zabick
May 31, 20225 min read
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Go, Therefore, and Make … Leaders?
The leadership priority is becoming a vocational idol in the contemporary American church.
JM Zabick
Apr 26, 20223 min read
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Enough with the Eschatology!
I see the prioritization of End Times stuff in large portions of the church to be both frightening and recklessly inappropriate.
JM Zabick
Apr 14, 20222 min read
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Does Romans Dare Teach Total Reconciliation?
Is the “good news” that we can be saved? Or is the gospel according to Paul really teaching us that we have been saved?
JM Zabick
Jan 6, 20228 min read
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Could It Be the American Church Needs Some “Bashing”?
Facing complete irrelevance or total demise, the American Church is playing victim, again. It's not the time.
JM Zabick
Mar 12, 202110 min read
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Our Silence Is Deadly
If I earn my church's ire because my faith doesn't match their politics, so be it. I love my church enough to risk it not loving me back.
JM Zabick
Jan 15, 202112 min read
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Christianity Today's Swipe at the Evangelical Right
Christianity Today's editorial, calling for the President's removal, whipped up intense evangelical rebuke. But it hit at something spot on!
JM Zabick
Dec 20, 20194 min read
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