Dr. Russell Moore – What Are The Major Issues of Today? (Part 6)
Posted byIn this sixth and final part of our presentation of Dr. Russell Moore’s lecture to D. Min. Students at Southwestern Seminary, he gives a powerful argument for the importance of biblical community within our churches. He argues that while our churches have, by and large, become the ecclesial equivalent of a “big box” store, they ought to be “outposts of the Kingdom that is coming.” My favorite quote is when he offers a suggestion of what we ought to be able to say to people:
“If you want to see what the Kingdom is like, come to our business meeting.”
I also found helpful his discussion of biblical music and why men hate our worship services. It’s challenging stuff. And all of this is in the first five minutes of this 33+ minute segment.
Feel free to use the comment section of this post to comment on any of the issues raised by Dr. Moore in this six-part presentation, which you can listen to by clicking here.
2 Comments
September 19th, 2007 at 8:38 am
This last section was the “money” segment! His first 5 minutes on the lack of masculine worship in contemporary churches needs to be distributed to churches everywhere (and I’m coming from a contemporary non-denom perspective!)
His segment on authentic community was gold as well. He set this piece up with an acknowledgment that the emergent crowd have a legitimate “gripe” with the lack of community in the modern church. It was great to see someone I would identify as a “traditional” theologian speak to that topic.
I admit I came to this with a small bit of bias toward Dr. Moore. I have a contrarian streak in me that can be healthy sometimes, and arrogant other times. Praise God for sanctification!
I pray that I will have a more humble approach to hearing from other brothers.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Brother Mike,
Dr. Moore has a great point about contemporary worship.
Oh, Welcome to SBC Today.
Blessings,
Tim