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Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

How egalitarian ideas spread through churches: scholars to pastors to congregations

Mike describes the pipeline of egalitarian influence.

egalitarian denominations scholarly influence liberal theology
Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

Teaching on a Sunday morning — the hardest case; various approaches churches take

Mike tackles the most contested ministry question.

Sunday preaching Baptist tradition ordination
Mike Winger idea 2018-04-18

Harold Camping's 1994 prediction: when it failed, he claimed it was 'spiritual' — the Holy Spirit left all denominations

Camping's first major public end-times prediction was 1994. His response to failure set a pattern.

false prophecy Holy Spirit Harold Camping
Mike Winger idea 2017-12-27

Church selection advice: evaluate a church by both its statement of faith and whether it actually lives out those beliefs

Q&A response to a viewer in the Bay Area asking how to find a good church.

Calvary Chapel church selection statement of faith
Mike Winger idea 2018-04-11

Reason 3 refuted: The '41,000 interpretations' claim is a sourcing error; difficulty of some passages ≠ general cryptic nature

The skeptic claims the Bible is cryptic and subject to 41,000 different interpretations, citing a Wikipedia article.

inspiration tests 41000 denominations Christian denominations
Mike Winger idea 2018-12-01

Q&A: Diversity in Christianity is not the same as division — unity is a calling, but believers can disagree on secondary issues while remaining unified in primary ones through love

Question from Fred Baek about how to reconcile Christian diversity with the biblical call for unity

Christian unity love ecclesiology
Mike Winger idea 2019-02-27

Habermas's 2005 scholarly consensus paper on resurrection appearances

Academic consensus on resurrection appearances

Gary Habermas Resurrection appearances
Mike Winger idea 2020-09-18

Denominations — legitimate variety within Christianity vs. counterfeit groups

Question from Leonardo Borges about whether denominations are divisive and whether multiple Christian factions can be legitimate.

denominations ecclesiology heresy
Mike Winger idea 2021-09-10

About Denominations: Do you think denominations are a “concession” from God in that He knew we would disagree on doctrine, or is it more like differing members of the body reaching different people in different ways?

Q&A question: About Denominations
Mike Winger idea 2022-07-29

Why are Tongues Only Prevalent in Some Denominations?: Why is speaking in tongues so common in specific church denominations, but virtually never happens in others? What does this say about other spiritual gifts?

Q&A question: Why are Tongues Only Prevalent in Some Denominations?

spiritual gifts tongues
Mike Winger idea 2023-12-29

Which Denomination is True?: Why are there over 30,000 Christian denominations all claiming to be the “true Christians”? Which one should I follow, and why?

Q&A question: Which Denomination is True?