“When belonging in the social hierarchy of the local church becomes a greater desire than becoming Christ to our neighbors outside the church we have returned to the glum decor of the castle walls. Hiding in fear of losing a kingdom we never had or were called to build…”
Great post over at setnservice.
There seem to be two ways of perceiving the path to god, one more often spoken of and the other less known. One–there are many up the mountain and they all lead to the same God. Even if these paths are in fact in opposition to each other. Two–each path leads to a different gods, [...]
In looking back on the long(tongue-in-cheek) time I have spent as a seminary student, I realize that there are a number of books that I wish I had been encouraged to read while at seminary, a few of these books were given as class texts, but most of them were simply recommendations from wiser men. [...]
If you are like me you have a number of sites that you hope around to every once in a while. Being someone who was a visual communications major in college I see what the guys over at churchmarketingsucks (CMS) has to say. Most of the time I just get annoyed by the fact that [...]
Last week Art Boulet wrote a post called “conform to church and convert to christ” the post was interesting and it got several comments, including this one from me:
Here is the problem, if you are ministering in an area over like say 10k people, you are limiting who you are reaching by embracing one culture [...]
Goodmanson ask whether or not the Gospel is Awakening.
Mark Driscoll points to the signs of burnout.
David Fairchild talks about the Top 25 Church planting churches
And in other news:
CNN reports that the N-word was buried this week.
“It is easier to be enthusiastic about Humanity with a capital ‘H’ than it is to love individual men and women, especially those who are uninteresting, exasperating, depraved, or otherwise unattractive. Loving everybody may be an excuse for living nobody in particular.”
-C.S. Lewis
So last night after watching some fireworks, from a backyard bbq at a friends house, some of my friends and I decided to go check out the new Transformers film. As a second generation nerd (My dad had the first issue of Spiderman), I was super excited to see a big screen version of the [...]
While listening to this week’s vodcast from Marshill Church, I was presented with their new plans for expansion. New sites, new services, and more reorganization.
While he was speaking about their plans to add more services, and locations, Mark Driscoll said out loud what many people looking at a church of 6,000 who are hoping to [...]
I’ll admit that this post’s title sounds like a chapter out of some nebulous 20th century theology book, but although I could not come up with a cool title, the topic of God and Money is still a very interesting one.
I have been a fan of Mark Driscoll now for over a year or so, [...]