tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918100.post113678462880814278..comments2023-08-23T03:49:23.364-04:00Comments on Christian Thought: "The Authentic Church"Julian Freemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16090211379574469969noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11918100.post-1136823766225036442006-01-09T11:22:00.000-05:002006-01-09T11:22:00.000-05:00Amen!My former church was a fan of the Purpose-Dri...Amen!<BR/><BR/>My former church was a fan of the Purpose-Driven stuff. Using ideas from the "Purpose-Driven Church," they put in place a set of five classes that everyone in the church was supposed to work their way through. <BR/><BR/>Each class taught some basic elements of the Christian life. The first class was on the church (both big 'C' and small 'c'), the next class on personal spiritual disciplines, the third on ministry and service, the fourth on evangelism and the fifth on worship.<BR/><BR/>While that was fine as far as it went, I always thought about the program as sort of being "catechism lite". (And I created and taught the discipleship course). How thin was the milk being fed to the people. How great was the need for much weightier spiritual meat!Tom Geehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363329987895368813noreply@blogger.com