Yesterday I had the unique chance to learn from Dan Kimball, Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, Alan Hirsch, and Mary Kate Morse. It was a day to look at all things about the church universal and the local church in order to question: why and how. Here were some the highlight thoughts and quotes from the…
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My Church Manifesto
Usually I keep my blog posts between 250 and 400 words (about normal for blog posts). This will be a bit longer, but stick with me. I think it will be worth your while, but grab something to drink while you read this. I’ve been waiting to be able to write this for a long…
The Club
Religion has a funny way of creating groups and strong borders for those groups. We see this with the thousands of denominations within Protestant Christianity. No one can agree on much of anything, so they just go and create a new group that will eventually be split a part over a “key Biblical issue” or…
What We Learn From Having Church in the Snow
Earlier this week Mark Driscoll wrote some reflections on his church after last weekend’s lowly attended church services. His church was one of very few who kept their doors open in the entire Northwest last weekend. I don’t know of any churches that stayed open last weekend in Portland. Mark gave a list of 3…
Canceling Church
Today (Dec 21st) we had a to cancel church. We’ve had up to a foot of snow in some spots and at least 6 inches everywhere. On top of that is a nice layer of frozen rain. It is a driving nightmare. There really wasn’t any other option, sadly. It is a funny thing, the…
The Church Question
Churches play 2 main roles. Everything that all churches do encompasses these things. Every Sunday when I lead worship I have these two different things tugging at me. Which one should I focus on? At various points you can’t just “do” both, sometimes it has to be one or the other. What are they? Discipleship…