JM Zabick
The Myth of the Un-Qualified "Called"
The idea has long descended the merit it may once offered. It now resides in the swirl of contemporary Christian nonsense.
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ARTICLES & OPINIONS
JM Zabick
- Aug 12, 2023
- 4 min
Mimicking (in the Hopes of Manufacturing) the Sacred
We can blame falling away on the siren song of "the world," but the more likely culprit is that folks are simply wisening up to the façade.
JM Zabick
- Apr 27, 2023
- 5 min
How Can I Understand Unless Someone Guides Me?
Let's identify and re-evaluate our teaching authorities in the spirit of Acts 8.
JM Zabick
- Apr 14, 2023
- 8 min
Re-Assessing Saint Thomas: A Process Model for Authentic Faith
Reconsidering the "doubting" Apostle, based in empathy and understanding for the strength he demonstrated for coming to faith.
JM Zabick
- Mar 25, 2023
- 3 min
Own Your Theology Proper!
Your Devotion, Spirituality, and/or Theology Will Never Rise above the Starting Point of Your Concept of God.
JM Zabick
- Feb 22, 2023
- 7 min
Why Would You NOT Celebrate Lent?
Approaching Lent as a Process of Spiritual Preparation for the "Bright Sadness" of Holy Week
JM Zabick
- Feb 21, 2023
- 13 min
Revival, Reckoning, or Something Greater?
Younger evangelicals are not “down” with the attractional church their Gen X parents and leaders are hell bent handing on to them.
JM Zabick
- Jan 25, 2023
- 14 min
My Real Problem with the "Western" Church
The battle against Penal Substitutionary Atonement is yielding needless collateral damage.
JM Zabick
- Oct 13, 2022
- 19 min
A Journey Home (5): Turning the Corner—Evangelical Deconstruction Yields a Catholic Re-Awakening
In the bareness of my completely leveled religious landscape, I beheld something long believed beyond me—Roman Catholicism.
JM Zabick
- Oct 5, 2022
- 13 min
A Journey Home (4): From Revival to Religion—The Later Evangelical Years
It was clear to me, then, the Spirit of God had drawn me back to the Roman Catholic Church.
JM Zabick
- Aug 25, 2022
- 23 min
A Journey Home (3): From Resistance to Revival—The Early Evangelical Years
Finding Community in a Warren Assembly of God & Meeting God at a Pensacola Revival
JM Zabick
- Jul 24, 2022
- 15 min
A Journey Home (2): From Catholic Roots to the Evangelical World
My love for God is forged in Catholicism. And a lifelong attraction to his presence, found only in this expression of faith, has endured.
JM Zabick
- Jul 14, 2022
- 9 min
Are We Really ALL Theologians?
Theological uprising is needed if the American church is going to welcome Reformation 2.0. But don't just take the title, BECOME THE THING!
JM Zabick
- Jul 6, 2022
- 16 min
Reformation 2.0
Catholicism has been reforming. Is Protestant evangelicalism willing to meet them in the effort toward a world church Reformation?
Nathan Hackman
- Jun 29, 2022
- 14 min
The Self-Directed Church
Both society and the church are experiencing an erosion of trust and increasing division, because both are playing the same game.
Geoffrey Bruschi
- Jun 22, 2022
- 11 min
Reforming the Reformation
If the church of tomorrow is to become the envisioned "world church" it must embrace the totality of humanity as God's masterpiece.
JM Zabick
- May 31, 2022
- 5 min
A Journey Home: An Introduction to My Tale of Spiritual Homecoming
Part one in a set of entries chronicling my return to Roman Catholicism
JM Zabick
- May 18, 2022
- 3 min
What Manner of "Spiritual-ness" Is This?
A primer on the difference between those who've come to faith and those who have assumed a faith.
JM Zabick
- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
Go, Therefore, and Make … Leaders?
The leadership priority is becoming a vocational idol in the contemporary American church.
JM Zabick
- Apr 14, 2022
- 2 min
Enough with the Eschatology!
I see the prioritization of End Times stuff in large portions of the church to be both frightening and recklessly inappropriate.
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