As a freshman at Wheaton College, I’d heard about this church that was doing creative things to reach lost people. We attended…The service opened with a Beatles song… I don’t know of a pastor or leader in America that has not in some way been shaped by the ministry of Willow Creek. Dave Dummitt (1:…
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Globalism and Willow Creek Church
By Mary Fairchild Willow Creek/Politics Bill Hybels at Willow Creek (above), spring of 2013; Pictures on Flickr. Updated 7/10/22. See the latest Willow Creek Report: Summer Notes: Dave Dummitt Picks Up Bill Hybels’ Mantle at Willow Creek Community Church to Promote Peter Drucker’s “Next Society” The Willow Creek Association, now the Global Leadership Network,…
Bill Hybels’ Willow Creek: The Volunteer Revolution
By Mary Fairchild Vision Night 2003, Bill Hybels said, “Our values are our rock solid convictions—who we are at Willow. We are going to try to understand the culture.” On “Vision Night 2005,” after Gene Appel read from Acts, “As the apostle Peter preached… and 3,000 people were added to their number…,” Bill Hybels pointed out…
Fuller Graduate Rob Bell at Willow Creek
By Mary Fairchild Rob Bell’s Reframing of Mars Hill Doubting Bell and Despairing Kierkegaard Subversive Fuller Seminary The Culture: A Christain Review? Cultural Creatives Spiritual Formation: Esoteric Contemplation Ancient Babylonian Mysticism Soren Kierkegaard was a nineteenth century philosophical theologian who’s writings are a denial of the basic tenets of the Christian faith and show disdain…
The Beatles and the Cosmic Consciousness Movement
By Mary Fairchild Willow Creek/Politics Saturday Evening Post, May 4, 1968. Millions of Beatles’ fans became convinced that transcendental meditation (TM) was an even more powerful way to alter your consciousness than drugs. “You go Beatles?” was the question of the driver for one of Life Magazine’s journalists who made the trip the same week…