ARTICLES & OPINIONS

JM Zabick

Mar 273 min read

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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Mimicking (in the Hopes of Manufacturing) the Sacred

JM Zabick

Aug 12, 20234 min read

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.

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How Can I Understand Unless Someone Guides Me?

JM Zabick

Apr 27, 20235 min read

How Can I Understand Unless Someone Guides Me?

Let's identify and re-evaluate our teaching authorities in the spirit of Acts 8.

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Revival, Reckoning, or Something Greater?

JM Zabick

Feb 21, 202313 min read

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.

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My Real Problem with the "Western" Church

JM Zabick

Jan 25, 202314 min read

My Real Problem with the "Western" Church

The battle against Penal Substitutionary Atonement is yielding needless collateral damage.

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A Journey Home (4): From Revival to Religion—The Later Evangelical Years

JM Zabick

Oct 5, 202213 min read

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.

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A Journey Home (3): From Resistance to Revival—The Early Evangelical Years

JM Zabick

Aug 25, 202223 min read

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

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A Journey Home (2): From Catholic Roots to the Evangelical World

JM Zabick

Jul 24, 202215 min read

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.

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JM Zabick

Jul 13, 20229 min read

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!

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JM Zabick

Jul 6, 202216 min read

Reformation 2.0

Catholicism has been reforming. Is Protestant evangelicalism willing to meet them in the effort toward a world church Reformation?

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Nathan Hackman

Jun 29, 202214 min read

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.

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Geoffrey Bruschi

Jun 22, 202211 min read

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.

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A Journey Home: An Introduction to My Tale of Spiritual Homecoming

JM Zabick

May 31, 20225 min read

A Journey Home: An Introduction to My Tale of Spiritual Homecoming

Part one in a set of entries chronicling my return to Roman Catholicism

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JM Zabick

Apr 25, 20223 min read

Go, Therefore, and Make … Leaders?

The leadership priority is becoming a vocational idol in the contemporary American church.

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JM Zabick

Apr 14, 20222 min read

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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Does Romans Dare Teach Total Reconciliation?

JM Zabick

Jan 6, 20228 min read

Does Romans Dare Teach Total Reconciliation?

Is the “good news” that we can be saved? Or is the gospel according to Paul really teaching us that we have been saved?

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Could It Be the American Church Needs Some “Bashing”?

JM Zabick

Mar 12, 202110 min read

Could It Be the American Church Needs Some “Bashing”?

Facing complete irrelevance or total demise, the American Church is playing victim, again. It's not the time.

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JM Zabick

Jan 15, 202112 min read

Our Silence Is Deadly

If I earn my church's ire because my faith doesn't match their politics, so be it. I love my church enough to risk it not loving me back.

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Christianity Today's Swipe at the Evangelical Right

JM Zabick

Dec 20, 20194 min read

Christianity Today's Swipe at the Evangelical Right

Christianity Today's editorial, calling for the President's removal, whipped up intense evangelical rebuke. But it hit at something spot on!

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