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Jason Cherry
- Feb 1, 2020
- 4 min
What is it? Explaining the Gist of Good Preaching
The 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 Cherry
- Dec 15, 2019
- 3 min
The Myth of Gospel-Centered Preaching: Part Two
Gospel-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 Cherry
- Dec 14, 2019
- 1 min
What 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 Cherry
- Dec 14, 2019
- 6 min
The Myth of Gospel-Centered Preaching: Part One
The hypocrisy of the Gospel-centered preaching is that it is not Great Commission preaching. If the preacher proclaims that Christ is mighty
Jason Cherry
- Nov 10, 2019
- 1 min
The Socratic Lecture
The lecture needs a comeback.
Jason Cherry
- Nov 12, 2017
- 1 min
A Lament Answered (Or here is a book recommendation)
Book recommendation for a new work of historical theology on the doctrine of conversion.
Jason Cherry
- Sep 7, 2017
- 1 min
Clarifying the Challenge
The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has published their massive survey on American denominational identity. The study confirms...
Jason Cherry
- May 15, 2017
- 3 min
Why My Kid Doesn’t Attend Vacation Bible School
The 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 Cherry
- May 7, 2017
- 3 min
One or Another? Reflections on the Great Commission
In the summer of 1989, the American magazine National Interest published an essay with the provocative title "The End of History?"
Jason Cherry
- Mar 18, 2017
- 2 min
Thick or Thin
American Christianity needs to begin thinking in terms of survival and retention, not as a primary agenda, but as an agenda nonetheless.
Jason Cherry
- Mar 1, 2017
- 2 min
What 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 Cherry
- Jan 10, 2017
- 2 min
Why 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...
Jason Cherry
- Dec 18, 2016
- 2 min
Why 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 Cherry
- Nov 13, 2016
- 3 min
Four Reasons Young Evangelicals Should Learn the History of the Altar Call
Since the beginning of days human beings have hankered to rank things. The caveman ranked the loin cloths of their fellow cavers. Northern E
Jason Cherry
- Nov 13, 2016
- 2 min
Why 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 Cherry
- Mar 31, 2016
- 4 min
Why 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 Cherry
- Mar 27, 2016
- 3 min
Altar Call Clichés: Things an Expositor Hopes to Never Say
Altar call language is now repellent clichés that drop out of the mouth of the conversionism preacher.
Jason Cherry
- Mar 25, 2016
- 2 min
Altar Call Revisionism
Christopher Columbus’ (1451-1506) American voyages did not convince Europe that the earth was round, at least not until Washington...
Jason Cherry
- Mar 12, 2016
- 2 min
Submerged
There is a submerged bronze statue of Jesus Christ seventeen meters deep in the Mediterranean Sea. Unbeknownst to its creator, Guido...