The Tragedy of Compromise

by Ernest Pickering

Notes

¹Newsweek, "A Time to Seek," 17 December 1990. back to article

²George Barna, The Frog in the Kettle, p. 123. back to article

³George Barna, User Friendly Churches, p. 64. back to article

⁴Bill Hull, "Is the Church Growth Movement Really Working?" Power Religion, p. 146. back to article

⁵Robert Schuller, Self-Esteem: The New Reformation, p.12. back to article

⁶Gregory Lewis, Is God for Sale? p. 16. back to article

⁷Donald Bloesch, The Future of Evangelical Christianity, p. 100. back to article

⁸Hull, p. 144 back to article

⁹Tom Nettles, "A Better Way: Church Growth Through Revival and Reformation," Power Religion, p. 183. back to article

¹⁰John MacArthur, Our Sufficiency in Christ, p. 31. back to article

¹¹Michael Scott Horton, Made in America, pp. 87-88. back to article

^12"Mighty Fortresses: Megachurches Strive to Be All Things to All Parishioners," Wall Street Journal, 13 May 1991. back to article

¹³Ibid. back to article

¹⁴Ibid. back to article

¹⁵Ibid. back to article

¹⁶Ibid. back to article

¹⁷Peter Savage, "The Church and Evangelism" in The New Face of Evangelism, edited by C. Rene Padilla, p. 108. back to article

¹⁸Michael Scott Horton, "The Subject of Contemporary Relevance," Power Religion, p. 333. back to article

¹⁹Hull, p. 143. back to article

²⁰Os Guiness, The Gravedigger File, pp. 130-33. back to article

²¹Hull, pp. 141-42. back to article

²²Don Matzat, "A Better Way: Christ Is My Worth," Power Religion, p. 253. back to article

²³Leith Anderson, A Church for the 21^st Century, p. 201. back to article

²⁴Hull, p. 174. back to article

²⁵James Penner, Goliath: The Life of Robert Schuller. back to article

²⁶Matzat, p. 26. back to article

²⁷Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissim, p. 31. back to article

²⁸Edward Welch, "Codependency and the Cult of the Self," Power Religion, p. 226. back to article

²⁹Horton, p. 331. back to article

³⁰Bloesch, p. 147. back to article

³¹David Powlinson, "Integration or Inundation?" Power Religion, p. 199. back to article

³²Anderson, p. 209. back to article

³³Ian Murray, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith, p. 667. back to article

³⁴Horton, p. 342. back to article

³⁵Kenneth Myers, All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes, p. 171. back to article

³⁶Gary McIntosh, "What's in a Name?" The McIntosh Church Growth Network, Vol. 3, No. 5 (May 1991), p. 2. back to article

³⁷MacArthur, pp. 133-34. back to article

³⁸Anderson, p. 21. back to article

³⁹Ibid., p. 32. back to article

⁴⁰Ibid. back to article

⁴¹Ibid., pp. 32-33. back to article

⁴²John R. W. Stott, "Biblical Preaching Is Expository Preaching," Evangelical Roots, edited by Kenneth Kantzer, p. 160. back to article

⁴³Barna, The Frog in the Kettle, p. 121. back to article

⁴⁴Barna. User Friendly Churches, pp. 23-24. back to article

⁴⁵Barna, The Frog in the Kettle, p. 133. back to article

⁴⁶Anderson, pp. 48-49. back to article

⁴⁷Cited in David Fant, A. W. Tozer: A Twentieth Century Prophet, p. 50. back to article

⁴⁸Francis Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster, p. 49. back to article

⁴⁹Donald Bloesch, "The Challenge Facing the Churches," Christianity Confronts Modernity, p. 208. back to article