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The bravest church I know
There are churches, thousands of them all over the world, full of incredibly brave people. They aren’t always celebrated. Sometimes they are “large” in number, but don’t have very good tech people who give them a web presence and “platform.” That would be because they exist in countries outside the U.S., where it’s not as big a deal to think…
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The powerful dynamics of a “small” church
Here is the dynamic of a small church I am grateful for as I reflect on ministry: You don’t need huge numbers to develop great people.
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Transparency in the Body of Christ
“It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no…
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The place of community in the Body of Christ
“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community… Let him who is not in community beware of being alone… Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.” ―…
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Book Review — The Church as Movement
I long for the Church to be a presence in every neighborhood not only in my city but every city and village in the nation.
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Can we recapture “evangelical”
A term that will take a beating.
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Pastoral “burnout”
We reward the doing and we haven’t bless the being.
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Coaching and mentoring
Our church leadership is praying through next steps of how we can help other churches pray and discern what the Spirit may be leading them to do in revitalization.
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Living Analog in a Digital World
The church is the counter-environment to the world. It is an invitation back to the garden, and an invitation to the Book of Acts, where the disciples held their beliefs and possessions in common. MORE HERE.
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