http://www.evenatthedoors.com/blog What in the world is going on? Biblical End-Times Prophecy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:34:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.evenatthedoors.com/blog/2010/01/25/pastor-rich-nathan-of-vineyard-vs-christian-zionism/ http://www.evenatthedoors.com/blog/2010/01/25/pastor-rich-nathan-of-vineyard-vs-christian-zionism/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:52:07 +0000 James Jackson http://www.evenatthedoors.com/blog/?p=1112 (January 25, 2010) While surfing the web I came across an email that Pastor Rich Nathan of the Vineyard Columbus church sent to his congregation in 2006. It concerned the Middle East peace process and the Arab-Israeli conflict. I have visited Pastor Nathan's church a few times and was impressed by the work that he and his congregation are doing to help those in need and their desire to further the kingdom of God. However, the one area of disagreement I have with Pastor Nathan is in the realm of biblical prophecy and the nation of Israel. The email he sent to his congregation highlights some of the areas of this disagreement. Therefore I will respond to the various points discussed in this email, some of which I agree with and others I don't. I will post the entire email below with my responses in blue font interspersed... Related posts:

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]]> http://www.evenatthedoors.com/blog/2010/01/25/pastor-rich-nathan-of-vineyard-vs-christian-zionism/feed/ 13 http://www.evenatthedoors.com/blog/2009/04/29/does-the-land-of-israel-belong-to-the-jews-new-evangelicalism-sojourners-and-others-versus-christian-zionism/ http://www.evenatthedoors.com/blog/2009/04/29/does-the-land-of-israel-belong-to-the-jews-new-evangelicalism-sojourners-and-others-versus-christian-zionism/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:07:12 +0000 James Jackson http://www.evenatthedoors.com/blog/?p=774 (April 29, 2009) There is an evangelical organization called Sojourners which was founded in 1971...The problem I've come across in reading the writings of Sojourner leaders and followers is that they seem to downplay the significance of God's revealed word found in the Holy Bible...The purpose of my article deals with another position that Sojourners and the other prominent new evangelical leaders take on the modern nation of Israel. Concerning the issue of Israel and Christians Jim Wallis, a leader of Sojourners, wrote in 2007, "The completely one-sided support for Israel from some conservative evangelicals rests on two things: one, a very dubious interpretation (I'm being generous here) of biblical prophecy and eschatology (the theology of the "end times") in which the modern state of Israel is still equated with the Old Testament notion of "God's chosen people;" and two, a complete denial of the very existence of Palestinian Christians... Related posts:

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