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 [...]
In recent talks with local church leaders and pastors, I have heard alot of talk about people who are empire building. They are hesitant to embrace what groups Harbor, and Redeemer and Mars Hill, are doing. These local people that I’ve talked to are hesitant to be seen or to move towards creating any “movement”.
Of [...]
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 [...]
It is no secret that I am a big fan of Tim Keller and Mark Driscoll, but its going to sound a bit over the top when say that guys like Tim Keller and Mark Driscoll can be seen as reflecting men like Paul(the Apostle, not the Beatle). It might be noted that all three [...]
I am a big Tim Keller fan, and I am also a very big Mark Driscoll fan. Recently in talking to friends at church we have started to talk about the fact that Marshill gives away all there media and take special care to give it away from of copyrights so that it can be [...]
Maybe its just me but the idea of multi-site churches seems to be gaining wider and wider acceptance. Recently a mega church in the suburbs of Pittsburgh announced that is going to be planting a site near our church. A week later I meet some guys in the Philadelphia area that are in the PCA [...]
So today Matt and I got up way too early and caught a flight to Philadelphia for the church planter community forum that they have out there. It was a great time. We heard about the idea of mercy and justice in church planting, and Matt and I got to talk on the plane and [...]
It has been almost three years since I got my first tattoo, and Ive been pondering if I should get another one. Part of my dilemma at first was wondering whether it would hinder my ministry, but I’ve since come to think that it will not.
So I’ve decided that it was time to get another [...]
My wife always gets worried when I called my dad. Why? Because we always end up getting into these massive debates, with a definite Italian Flavor, and by Italian flavor I mean passionate loud discussions. Joanna gets worried because she thinks that whenever my dad and I disagree it might be the last time we [...]
Several months ago our church arranged for Dr. William Krispin of Citynet to come and act as a consultant for our church. He visited us for the first time last weekend.
Let me give you a little back ground on Bill, he told me to call him Bill. Bill grew up in Chicago and was [...]