Mission is not an optional activity for Christ’s disciples. If they are not gatherers, they are scatterers. Some supposed that a church may feature worship and nurture, leaving gathering as a minor role… Such a church is actively involved in scattering for the congregation that ignores mission will atrophy and soon find itself shattered by […]
All Europe is coming across the ocean, all that part at least that cannot make a living at home, and what should we do with them they increase our taxes, eat our bread, and encumber our streets and not one in 20 is competent to keep himself.
New York Resident Philip Holme 1840’s.
I heard a lecture recently where the speaker was talking to Alan Hirsch about his banging of the missiology drum almost to the exclusion of everything else. Hirsch’s response was that the rest of the church is going one way so much, that he is seeking to strike a balance by going the other way. […]
I was talking to one of the elders at my church after our Easter service, and we were discussing the historic Easter greeting: He has risen. He has risen, indeed!
This elder and I were talking about how we use a phrase once a year, that many people might really understand. This elder said that he […]
Is Mark Driscoll right?
Do men care about church?
Should men care about church?
Do we, as the church, target the audience before us which statistically is more female( I’ve heard 60%)?
Do we find ways to make sure that men know that Jesus was a man, the ultimate man, a man, that every girl should want to marry, […]
After about a month of not finishing this article I finally took some time to sit down and complete my thoughts on this issue.
The percentage of “churched” Americans has continued to rise over the last 100 years. Yet at the same time there is a sense that especially since the 1960’s there has been a […]
Check out this interesting graph I found over at nytimes.com
For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity. The course of conduct which they follow has not been […]
It will not take you very long to find some Christian speaking, or writing about the waining of American Christian culture. In fact I bet it would be hard to find a Christian who has not personally thought about subject or has heard it from a friend or relative. The body is filled with “rumors […]