DR. GARY GILLEY: THE KINGDOM OF EMERGENT THEOLOGY – PART 1
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 1, 2007 in Emergent Church
Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to this excellent article Dr. Gary Gilley begins:
It has been claimed that Sigmund Freud enjoyed telling his followers a story of a pastor who visited an atheist insurance agent who was on his death bed. The family had asked the pastor to share the gospel with their dying loved one as they waited in another room. As the conversation continued longer than expected there was hope that the pastor was being successful in his mission. When the pastor finally emerged from the bedroom it was discovered that the agent had not converted to Christ but he had been able to sell the pastor an insurance policy.
While Freud used the illustration to warn his fellow psychoanalysts to stay true to their beliefs, Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Seminary, from whom I obtained this account, has another application to offer.
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