Bringing Back the Great Commission?
…it away from ‘Great Commission Utilitarianism’. Great. Sometimes I worry that we are forgetting the Great Commission altogether. By different means, my wife and I got exposed to Kuyperian ideas….
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Don’t Blame the Boomers for Everything
…of ‘Great Commission Utilitarianism’. Other contributions that Generation X and youth that followed them have brought to the church are (i) a sense of history, that there was stuff of…
The Politics, or a-Politics, of the Evangelical Church in the 1970s
…Great Commission, but against “Great Commission Utilitarianism,” the idea that God’s sole interest in the world today is conversion and discipleship, and that our work in the world has no…
My Cartesian Moment: How I Got Repoliticized
…I call Great Commission Utilitarianism: get people saved and discipled, and everything else will take care of itself. Wycliffe’s and SIL International’s view of politics was that every prevailing form…
Why Does Talk About “Evangelism” Make Me Nervous?
…time most of evangelicalism was dominated by the mentality I call “Great Commission Utilitarianism,” or even sometimes “Great Commission Deism.” This is the mentality that in fact restores the old…
Bahnsen on D’Souza and Catholic Protestants
…called Great Commission Utilitarianism, the belief that the occupations of ordinary life mainly exist to support the so-called Great Commission, whether narrowly or holistically conceived. And Catholics, especially Jose Maria…
Why I Could Never Be a Good Catholic
…locked into a mentality of Great Commission Utilitarianism, that earthly work exists primarily to provide relational and financial opportunities for evangelism and sometimes volunteer social action; whereas some of the…
Great Commission Utilitarianism
Darrow Miller of Disciple Nations Alliance (disciplenations.org) writes about Great Commission Utilitarianism. I frankly claim credit for coining the term, and the issue is certainly one of my passions, but…
Creeping Lutheranism?
…moved away from what the Reformed often called “pietism” and I like to call Great Commission Utilitarianism. I can testify that one reason I was captivated by Christian Reconstructionism in…