Geoffrey Holsclaw
(Reposted from last year). Last week I attended a conference in D.C, missing the Ash Wednesday service at our congregation in Chicago. Instead I attended one offered by the conference. The service was beautiful and well thought out. Some words were offered by Dallas Willard, but the only phrase I remember is when he said, […]
So I’ve been reading Scott Boren’s new Missional Small Groups, not a book I would normally pick up because, well, let’s face it, anything with “Small Groups” in the title is suspect. But after I got over that bout of snobbery I dove in, and it’s been quite compelling. I found chapter three very helpful, […]
“On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing […]
Too often the efforts of church planting and evangelism in unreached places, goes by the term ‘missions.’ But when a group of believers is sufficiently gathered, we then say that a ‘church’ has been established. The linking of terms in a before-after type of relationship has often been propagated by mission agencies themselves. But is […]
I’ve just started teaching a class at Trinity on “Issues for Men in Ministry.” I’m taking the angle that really it is manhood that is the mystery here, not not ministry. That unless men learn (maybe for the first time) what manhood is then it is impossible to function as a man in ministry. Indeed, […]