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		<title>Trinity &amp; Incarnation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a Biblical Christology Within a Trinitarian Monotheism Tertullian (c. 160-220 AD) is officially given credit for coining the term “Trinity” to refer to the triune nature of the Godhead (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).[1] The term itself is nowhere used in the Biblical text, but the majority of Christian traditions have accepted “Trinity” as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2774&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Organic Church Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who follow my blog, you know I&#8217;ve been reassessing my understanding of &#8220;organic&#8221; church life in the NT. As I mentioned in a few recent posts, I&#8217;m finding that it&#8217;s not really helpful to use the term, especially since it has gone viral. I agree with much of the contrast that is drawn between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2753&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Gnosticism in the Pastorals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was largely the work of Rudolf Bultmann in his Theology of the New Testament (1951) that first set out to determine the extent to which the Christian Gospel unfolded by way of Gnostic terminology in order to refute the dangerous fast-growing heresy later to be known as Christian Gnosticism.[1] Bultmann’s reconstruction of early Christianity has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2719&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Limits of Canon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who grew up within Protestantism, especially in the Bible belt, it&#8217;s likely that we were seldom ever confronted with questions concerning the limits of the biblical canon. If ever we happened to come across a NRSV (including Apocryphal or Deuterocanonical books), we may have possibly responded with, &#8220;What is this? The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2702&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Shift in My Ecclesiology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently revealed that I’m experiencing a shift in my ecclesiology. For the sake of clarification, I do still agree with much of what Sparks, Nee, Viola, and others have written about Christ in &#8220;organic&#8221; community. I don&#8217;t want anyone to think I believe a little institutionalism is cool or that the church is nebulous in nature. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2671&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 Cor 14:26 Descriptive or Prescriptive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been known as a proponent of “organic” church life for several years now. Due to the confusion over this now popular nuanced term (cp. Sparks, Cole, &#38; Viola’s usage), I have decided to stop using it when describing the sort of church life that is to be enjoyed by all Christian communities in every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2642&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist? (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2011) by David T. Lamb In his 2004 bestseller, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, Sam Harris first introduced the world to the popular New Atheism. Listen to leading apologist William Lane Craig talk about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2626&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let No Man Put Asunder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus&#8217; Teaching on Divorce Jesus’ teaching on divorce appears in the synoptic gospels and Paul.[1] It is because of multiple and abundant attestation that Jesus’ sayings on divorce are considered, even among the most liberal of scholars, to be authentic words of Jesus of Nazareth.[2] This would usually be reason for a moderate evangelical like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2574&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Treasure &amp; Fine Pearls</title>
		<link>http://daviddflowers.com/2011/06/15/hidden-treasure-fine-pearls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it that has some folks continually making bad decisions and finding themselves in the dump of life? Do they enjoy their isolation? Do they revel in their private hell? Don’t they see the trail of tears in their rearview mirror? I’m no psychiatrist, but I have some experience with this sort of thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2515&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Andrew Byers</title>
		<link>http://daviddflowers.com/2011/05/30/qa-with-andrew-byers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 17:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David D. Flowers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Byers is the author of the recently released book, Faith Without Illusions: Following Jesus as a Cynic-Saint (InterVarsity Press, 2011). Andy is currently working on a PhD in New Testament at Durham University (England) while serving as a college pastor at Mountain Brook Community Church and leading University Christian Fellowship in Birmingham, Alabama. He [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=daviddflowers.com&amp;blog=2812538&amp;post=2487&amp;subd=ddflowers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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