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Thanks. I needed that.
Mark Batterson in his book The Grave Robber put it this way: Sometimes we need someone to silly-slap us! We need some tough love applied. Probably 25 years or more ago I sat at breakfast with a man I wanted to learn from. I was new in ministry and a habit I was establishing at the time was trying to learn from…
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The church is the hope of the world
Ben Witherington interviews Scot McKnight on McKnight’s new book, A Fellowship of Differents. The interviews I’ve read sound great. This interview in particular draws out a connection between Christ and his Church I think we keep wanting to lose in our American culture. We have too much of this, “I love Jesus, but can’t stand his Church” kind of mentality. Quite…
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Bigness and blessedness
My constant mantra in ministry to keep me somewhat centered on Christ and not just the stuff we do is this: “It’s a both/and world.” It’s analog. It’s digital. It’s huge. It’s small. It’s “attractional.” It’s “missional.” There are simply places for both. In the world. In the church. Yet, in American Christianity, we keep bumping into the same mistake.…
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Why I won’t leave the church
For all the angst out there about evangelicals “leaving church,” and there are good reasons to get disappointed (so don’t get me wrong), Scot McKnight hits another home run in an interview regarding his latest book. When asked about evangelicals “leaving the church” he says this: …as divorce is easy so leaving church is easy. The rugged commitment to one…
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Let’s at least get to the table to talk
What I long for is the honest conversation in the church. I want to drop my misconceptions and just invite a conversation. It’s incredibly difficult. For one, I can’t get those things completely out of my head. I have to work harder at simple listening. For another, when people see me, they see my labels. So, because I’m Pentecostal… or…
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Lord, let us DREAM!
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Book Review: Eldership and the Mission of God
J.R. Briggs and Bob Hyatt have teamed up to write a book on elders in the context of being a “missional” church. (I am not even going to pretend I know what that word means. I’ve tried. I’ve failed. Just go with it.) The book is Eldership and the Mission of God: Equipping Teams for Faithful Church Leadership. Alan Hirsch writes…
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Founding documents
We are getting ready to sell our church building and have had people doing some clean out projects. I am thankful some folks going through some old files recognized some buried treasure. In the old boxes were the first Constitution and ByLaws of our church and this announcement calling for the first official meeting of the church to set up…
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What I “bank” on
I want to “bank” on the extravagant love, beauty, and power of Jesus. When those not following Christ currently encounter him through me, HIS incredible beauty shines through. I want to hope for a maturing body of believers unafraid to plunge into uncharted waters and trust the leading of the Spirit. Lead on, Holy Spirit.
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You are weary… come home
We want our church, Heights Church, to be that place where the weary find rest. We have our bad interactions with “the Church” in our lives. It could be that just about every American Christian has a story to tell. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The church can be a place of restoration. It is a place…
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