You need to bake the bread before you give it away. Likewise, we need to nurture the church to bless the world. These are the basic movements of the church gathered and scattered. So often we forget one of these steps. For some, the moment of blessing the world is so emphasized, of going to […]
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It is often claimed that the missional church might be loosing the high standard of expository preaching. And often we don’t exactly help to clarify this when we rail against individualized, overly rationalistic, disembodied information dumps which masquerade as the worst of expository preaching (love ya Dave). And when we claim that interpretation is a […]
Last week I was in LA at the Wesleyan Philsophical Society. I presented a paper on “Christ in Circulation: The Eucharist and Money.” The abstract is below and then after the break is the paper. If you are interested then you should definitely also check out Jason A. Coker’s post on a similar topic: The […]
I want to add to the reflections offered by Rozko, Hiestand, Sternke, Hart, Briggs, Fitch, Chandler, and others on the Ecclesia National Gathering. They have already offered great summaries, but I want to add my impression. My over all impression is that while disappointed with the church, most there had yet become cynical. It seemed […]
BREAKING NEWS: The 9 Marks of the church, a ministry of Mark Devers is really a front for a clandestine organization devoted receiving to the 9 Stigmata of Christ. While the 9 Marks ministry has received much attention of late, it seems to be based in a serious misunderstanding. The 9 “biblical” marks of the […]