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Published: June 5, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Yesterday I wrote about the charismatic movement from the inside. Today I go deeper into a specific stream that grew from charismatic soil, and that represents, in my assessment, the most theologically dangerous development in contemporary Protestant Christianity. The New Apostolic Reformation. The term was coined by missiologist C.…
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Published: June 4, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Yesterday I wrote about Rome from the outside, as someone who came near it in ecumenical environments but was never formed by it. Today I write about the charismatic movement from the inside. As someone who was born into it, shaped by it, invested in it for nearly four…
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Published: June 3, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com This post is written in the spirit of the Reformers. Not in the spirit of the culture wars. Not in the spirit of sectarian tribalism. Not in contempt for the billions of sincere, devout human beings who have found their spiritual home within the Roman Catholic Church, many of…
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Published: June 2, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com For seven days, Days 8 through 13, this series has been examining what the gospel is not. Church membership. Baptism. Emotional experience. Moral living. The sinner’s prayer formula. And the false assurance that each of these substitutions produces. Today, Day 14, we step back from the specific examinations and…
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Published: June 1, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Yesterday’s post ended with a question. Make sure you know which one you prayed, the genuine or the formula. And if the answer is uncertain, the invitation is still open. Today I want to press that question further. Not to produce despair, genuine assurance of salvation is one of…
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Published: May 31, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Four posts into the examination of what the gospel is not, and today we arrive at perhaps the most sensitive one. Not because the subject is theologically complex. The theology here is not particularly difficult. But because the sinner’s prayer is so woven into the fabric of evangelical Christianity,…
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Published: May 30, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Ask the average person on the street how they expect to get to heaven, or whatever they believe lies beyond death, and the most common answer you will receive is a version of this: “I think I’m a pretty good person. I haven’t done anything terrible. I try to…
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Published: May 29, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Something happens in certain worship environments that is almost universally treated as the presence of God. The lights dim. The music builds. The room fills with the sound of hundreds of voices singing the same words. The atmosphere is charged, emotionally, physically, almost tangibly. And in that moment, for…
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Published: May 28, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Yesterday we established that church membership cannot save. The thief on the cross had no church membership, no attendance record, no service history, and received paradise. Because the root of salvation is not what you do inside a religious community. It is what Christ did on the cross. Today…
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Published: May 27, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com For seven days this series has been building the positive case, the complete, precise, biblically grounded account of what the true gospel actually is. The bad news. The holy God. The cross. The resurrection. Repentance and faith. Today the series turns. Starting today, and running through the next several…
