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 […]
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It has become somewhat fashionable again to claim that Paul ruined the Gospel of Jesus by making it all bloody and such, for getting that Christ came proclaiming the Kingdom of God, not some atonement theory (yes, I’m referring to the Brian McLaren’s new book). Well, this afternoon I came across this and thought it […]
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 […]
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Missional Monday: Verge, LA
I’ll be heading out to LA this Friday for Verge, LA: where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. If you are near by you should check it out. DETAILS: DATEFriday, November 13th – 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.Saturday, November 14th – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PLACEThe Fountain Room HOSTThe Ecclesia Network COSTFree RSVPPlease RSVP […]
There are at least two levels of silence, if not many more: the silence after the audible sounds have left, and the silence after the accusers and justifiers have left. The first is just getting to a place or a space, of solitude, of quiet, of silence. This is where physical, or audible silence, or […]
Do you live in a world of accountants or editors? Are you yourself an accountant or an editor? I’m not talking in the sense of actual professions, but rather in your relationships, in how you understand others, and in your community. Joe Myers, in Organic Community, speaks of the difference between accountability and edit-ability: the […]
It used to be in vogue to be post-evangelical. And to some extent I can understand this. People understand evangelicals often according to those who speak the loudest while at the same time defining it the narrowest. For those who became post-evangelical it was a protest of sorts about an all too limited theology and […]
Here is a list of 10 personality types that destroy all the energy of planning and planting churches (and even the energy of an existing church). The opposite to these are based in deep faith and relational maturity, something I’ll be posting on later (and if I was artistic I would made fun little drawings […]