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Everyone blog/tweet on Gosnell 6pm EST

Calling all bloggers: Tonight at 6pm Eastern (EST) will you publish and/or tweet (on all your social networks) a post on Gosnell, using the #Gosnell hashtag?

There is going to be a tweet event: https://www.facebook.com/events/440055226080593/permalink/445412975544818

In addition, this month's carnival will be Gosnell-centered, so submit your best Gosnell posts here: http://www.christiancarnival.blogspot.com/p/submitting.html 

Are Christians arrogant?

This month's contest winner is Joel Furches' Are Christians arrogant?

The complaint goes something like this: “The problem with Christianity is that too many people who claim to be Christians automatically dismiss anyone who thinks in any way different from them as wrong. It’s arrogant and hypocritical. Didn’t Jesus say ‘Judge not’?”

Decades ago, when two people had a disagreement, they had three options: continue to disagree, adopt the opponents view, or mutually agree on some third viewpoint.

In modern times a fourth option has been invented and become practically mandatory: everybody’s viewpoint is correct. It is not a problem if the two ideas contradict one another because truth is like ice cream: it’s a matter of opinion. Your taste in truth is as valid as mine.

Alternately, people now believe that no one can really know what is true. Everyone operates off of the limited information they have, but can’t say with any confidence that they are right and someone else is wrong.

Given these viewpoints, it is understandable that people get offended when Christians act like they know the truth and reject all viewpoints that differ from theirs. However, there are some obvious flaws with both of these concepts of truth.

Read the rest of the article on Examiner.com.

My Prayer for My Church

This month's contest winner comes from Sarah at This is what Sed said:

My Prayer for My Church
by Sarah

A few months ago, a new pastor started at my church.  After a year of being pastor-less, it was great to welcome him, his wife and four kids who have moved from Perth.

Like I've witnessed at other churches, welcoming the new pastor was an exciting time in our church.  But part of me felt wary.  I've seen what can happen as the months and years go on.  The excitement dwindles.  The church expects him to be a multi-talented man with outstanding gifts in preaching, teaching, pastoral care, visits, hospitality, youth group, evangelism....then realises that the pastor is not perfect.  They start to compare him to previous pastors.  The pastor realises that in order for the church to grow and for God to be glorified, changes must happen...hard changes.  The Word of God must be preached even when it ticks people off.  When the pastor stops dancing to the congregation's tune, they turn against him.

My prayer for my church is that we won't burden him with our expectations of what we think he should be like, but encourage him to be the man God has called and made him to be.  That we won't put in our 'shopping lists' of things we'd like him to do.  That we'd stand back and let him and the elders lead us.  That we'd trust God by trusting them and submitting willingly to their leadership.

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Announcing October Carnival and New Monthly Contest

This month's carnival is up over at American Church History--thanks so much, Chris Price, for hosting!  November's carnival will by hosted by our archive admin, Rey Reynoso, at The Bible Archive.  Submit a post for that carnival on our blog, and check out all its tabs, too.

New Monthly Contest!  Reply to this message to nominate your favorite submission to this month's carnival.  The winner will be posted to the Christian Carnival blog on October 15.  This will be a monthly contest.

Happy blogging!

Maryann Spikes

Christian Carnival admin

Christian Apologetics Alliance group blog admin

Ichthus77 blog author

Ichthus77.com freelancer

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Scheduling hosts, going from weekly to monthly after August

In August, Christian Carnival will change from weekly to monthly. If you want to host, send an email to ichthus77@hotmail.com. First you need to read this: http://www.christiancarnival.blogspot.com/p/hosting.html

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