I’ve been wishing I could get back to the concept I started with a few weeks ago, but after two days of thought and energy engaging with Nathan Bryant and Bart Blair about the vision and mission of our church-to-come, now I find the thought developing further. In my first post, I talked about how [...]
A great article from Penelope Trunk about self-discipline. Great ideas and a good point about how important this is. It’s on my heart because I am really beginning to recognize that self-discipline is not just critical for your own personal walk with Jesus, but if you want to do anything of note in life, it [...]
Thanks to Team Pyro I read through an article on the coming collapse of evangelicalism. There is much truth there but also a lot of pessimism. I still hold out hope that the picture will not come to pass with that much failure. Two things from the article and where it intersects with myself. We [...]
I connected with a church planter out in Chicago, who is a bit of a marketing whiz. He has built a website called “Eat Jesus.com” where church planters and church leaders contribute articles based on the theme of how to be “self-feeding” Christians. I have been asked to contribute articles there, and I am excited [...]
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Matt Sweetman was challenged by Ed Stetzer’s words cautioning about the creation of a new way of doing church rather than actually reaching new people with the Gospel. I’ve wrestled with this from the first, when we came onboard with Community of Hope to help launch this new church plant. How much should we be [...]
Continue reading about The Beginnings of a Church Plant – Who Needs Saving?
Mondays are definitely becoming a debriefing day for me. It gives me a chance to reflect on all that went on Sunday – and the way we do church up here, a LOT happens on Sundays. The discipleship class I teach is proceeding really fast. I feel like anytime I have less than 4 people [...]
Continue reading about God Covers the Bases – I Didn't Even Know They Were Open!
It’s not a review yet… I’m not finished reading it yet. But I will say this: This book is changing the way I think. That is rare. I find it’s influencing everything I think about church – why we do what we do, why there are problems, what the solution is, what a Christian should [...]
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