American evangelicalism has grown dramatically in the last twenty years. However, despite all the people, activities, resources, and money, many Christians who work hard at their religion do not experience the sense of ultimate well-being and spiritual joy that Jesus promises us. In "Toward a Modern Reformation," author Jon Windness points out one source of our disappointment and failure. The problem is what he calls Neo-Arminianism, a human-enablement and self-help gospel that is displacing the grace-based gospel of the Bible. He gives examples of Neo-Arminian teachings, discusses the...
American evangelicalism has grown dramatically in the last twenty years. However, despite all the people, activities, resources, and money, many Chris...
The world needs a new kind of Christian church. Author Jon Post Windness proposes that this church will combine the life-changing piety of evangelical Protestantism with the modern epistemology and cosmology of mainline Protestantism. "Manifesto for the Abundant Life Church" presents the purposes and principles of this innovative doctrine.
Taking on the role of reformer, Windness seeks to restructure Protestantism itself and believes that there are two fundamental problems in Protestantism today. The first is failure to facilitate abundant life, and the second is failure to hold...
The world needs a new kind of Christian church. Author Jon Post Windness proposes that this church will combine the life-changing piety of evangeli...