Jason CherryFeb 14 minWhat is it? Explaining the Gist of Good PreachingThe only person in the church required to be more precise than the choir is the person who instructs the choir. The only person in the churc
Jason CherryDec 15, 20193 minThe Myth of Gospel-Centered Preaching: Part TwoGospel-centered preaching tweaks the Gospel to be about self-acceptance. It is a message that says, “God accepts you, he wants you to be you
Jason CherryDec 14, 20191 minWhat is Christian Education?The solution to sin-bondage is not to create an entire system that gives people over to their sinful desires. Sinners need liberation from t
Jason CherryDec 14, 20196 minThe Myth of Gospel-Centered Preaching: Part OneThe hypocrisy of the Gospel-centered preaching is that it is not Great Commission preaching. If the preacher proclaims that Christ is mighty
Jason CherryNov 12, 20171 minA Lament Answered (Or here is a book recommendation)Book recommendation for a new work of historical theology on the doctrine of conversion.
Jason CherrySep 7, 20171 minClarifying the ChallengeThe Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has published their massive survey on American denominational identity. The study confirms w...
Jason CherryMay 15, 20173 minWhy My Kid Doesn’t Attend Vacation Bible SchoolThe first law of VBS: don’t run out of red drink. Most church kids remember well the summertime tradition of VBS week. Mom’s exhausting them
Jason CherryMay 7, 20173 minOne or Another? Reflections on the Great CommissionIn the summer of 1989, the American magazine National Interest published an essay with the provocative title "The End of History?"
Jason CherryMar 18, 20172 minThick or ThinAmerican Christianity needs to begin thinking in terms of survival and retention, not as a primary agenda, but as an agenda nonetheless.
Jason CherryMar 1, 20172 minWhat do changing demographics have to do with the altar call?Changing worldwide demographics demonstrated the urgent need to study the altar call and the conversionism that has become codified in the A
Jason CherryJan 10, 20172 minWhy Does Historical Knowledge Breed Effective Change?As an April Fools’ gag a few years ago NPR published the following article: As you might imagine, the “comments” section was soon filled w...
Jason CherryDec 18, 20162 minWhy Read Amateurs?You will, no doubt, be given pause at the discovery that The Culture of Conversionism and the History of the Altar Call is self-published. I
Jason CherryNov 13, 20163 minFour Reasons Young Evangelicals Should Learn the History of the Altar CallSince the beginning of days human beings have hankered to rank things. The caveman ranked the loin cloths of their fellow cavers. Northern E
Jason CherryNov 13, 20162 minWhy did Martyn Lloyd-Jones Not Give an Altar Call?Historical figures get frozen in time, remembered for those one or two bullet point things. For Isaac Newton it is the apple falling on his
Jason CherryMar 31, 20164 minWhy Have Christian Historians Ignored the Altar Call?The altar call is simultaneously the most central and most unstudied methodology in the American church in the past two hundred years. Those
Jason CherryMar 27, 20163 minAltar Call Clichés: Things an Expositor Hopes to Never SayAltar call language is now repellent clichés that drop out of the mouth of the conversionism preacher.
Jason CherryMar 25, 20162 minAltar Call RevisionismChristopher Columbus’ (1451-1506) American voyages did not convince Europe that the earth was round, at least not until Washington Irving...
Jason CherryMar 12, 20162 minSubmergedThere is a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ seventeen meters deep in the Mediterranean Sea. Unbeknownst to its creator, Guido Gall...
Jason CherryMar 5, 20161 minChristians and History and Christian HistoryThe following article can be read at: https://classicaldifference.com/christians-and-history-and-christian-history/ #Historiography #Chur...
