There are so many causes competing for our attention, our time and our finances. The question is, where do you stand?
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Blind Foxes & The Rock
November 22nd, 2009
Blind Foxes and Rorschach Statistics
August 27th, 2008Associate professor Bradley Wright from the University of Connecticut is talking again about Christians researches who focus too much on the negative in surveys about Christians. In his latest series on “The creation of a useful, but inaccurate, statistic” he writes,
In presenting these data, Barna emphasizes the low favorability scores for Evangelicals. He writes that non-Christians are “dismissive” of evangelicals, and that “one reason why evangelical churches across the nation are not growing is due to the image that non-Christian adults have of evangelical individuals.” One could make the opposite case just as strongly—while only 22% had favorable impressions of Evangelicals, only 23% had unfavorable impressions. These data could be spun either way, the cup being half-empty or half-full, and Barna chooses half-empty
He goes on in part 2 of the series to make the following observation.
Yesterday I recounted a study conducted by the Barna Group. This study can be summarized as positive, negative, or ambiguous in its portray of Christians. Positive in that born-again Christians were found to be well-regarded, negative in that Evangelicals were not, and ambiguous in that different reactions were given to what is essentially the same group (i.e., evangelical and born-again Christians).As such, these data provide almost a Rorschach test in which people can see what they want about Christians. It’s informative, then, to see how commentators, both within the church and without, have used these data. Without exception, they emphasize the negative story, and each has different incentives to do so.
It’s a nagging question for me, “why do some Christian researches always seem to emphasize the negative which, in many cases, only serves to tear down the Body of Christ?“
Tell me, what do you see?
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A Mother’s Day Poem
May 11th, 2008We had a special Mother’s day service today at Reunion. The older kids stayed in for the worship, sat at the tables, and made cards for their moms during the sermon. Since I was not preaching, I decided to make a card for my wife Suzanne. Admittedly, it is not my best work, my poem does not exactly flow off the tonnage, but if you read it in the proper meter, it still rhymes pretty good. Suzane liked the card well enough and said I could share it with you all. 
As a side note, the CheeseMark Card label was created back in college by my friend Dave Young and I. The name and tag-line are perfect for poor college students and church planters
Blind Foxes & Churchless Faith
April 8th, 2008
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