Mike Wittmer

Tag: don’t stop believing

  • what are you hearing?

    This question is for those of you who disagree with my conviction that we need to believe in Jesus and follow him/obey his commands/love our neighbor in order to be saved.  I clearly say that we need both right belief and right conduct, yet you seem to only hear the right belief part.  For example, Susan warned…

  • the bottom line

    My new book, Don’t Stop Believing: Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, examines the most hotly contested issues of our day:  Is it possible to know anything?; Does the kingdom of God include non-Christians?; Is hell for real and forever?; Must you believe something to be saved?; Can you belong before you believe?; Is…

  • My ETS handout

    Since some of you asked, here is the handout for my ETS paper, which will give the general sense of my talk.                                         Machen on McLaren:  A New Kind of Liberal? Michael Wittmer                                                                          Evangelical Theological Society Grand Rapids Theological Seminary                                                              November 20, 2008   Michael Wittmer, Don’t Stop Believing:  Why Living Like Jesus…

  • what do you like about emergent?

    My new book, Don’t Stop Believing:  Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough, just arrived.  I drove to Zondervan’s warehouse on Friday and picked up over a thousand copies for myself and then spent the weekend reading through them.  The first thirty or so were great, the next twenty just seemed like more of the…

  • Target Audience

    Here is a blogger who represents my target audience for my soon to be released, “Don’t Stop Believing:  Why Living Like Jesus Is Not Enough”  If you have a moment, read his post, my initial response, and his reply.  Judging from his review, how successful do you think I will be in reaching people like…

  • Emergent Church

    Here are a couple of articles which I recently published on the Emergent church.  The first is a more popular essay in the Torch, Cedarville University’s (my alma mater) magazine.  The whole magazine is well done, and my entry begins on p. 8.  Read it here:  http://www.cedarville.edu/departments/marketing/publicrelations/pdf/torch/torch_f2008.pdf I also wrote a more scholarly treatment in Western…