the declutteringThis is going to be a short, quick post about a trip to Haiti. If you are a twitterer-er-er, I would appreciate it if you would retweet this post.
I have a friend who is headed to Haiti the week of the 21st-29th of March. I know that’s right around the corner. A few team members [...]
In actuality, I think there is only one answer to “why more people don’t live missionally,” but we’ll get to that later. Here’s an idea I’m kicking around right now about the reason why. Bear with me:
In Exodus, God leads the people out of Egypt. As they journey in the wilderness, on day one, they [...]
I really don’t know how long these posts are going to go on, but I’m going to keep throwing them out there for now. I’ve finished reading Deep Church, but I keep running back through it because there was so much good stuff in there. Here’s a quote from this mornings review:
Out greatest priority, particularly [...]
The gospel should affect us. Every part of us. As soon as I disallow this, I quickly forget my sin and my saviour’s sacrifice.
I wrote a post the other day about segregating Christ to a corner of my life. For a year and a half before I joined the staff at Cornerstone Church in Auburn, [...]
First, if you’re tracking with the conversation on the ‘missional church’ or ‘missional living’ then some/much of what you read below might be familiar to you. I’m just pulling together the conversations I’ve been having and the teachings that have been shaping me. Second, you might suggest, ‘missional’ is just a hip term for living [...]
I’m reading a book right now called Deep Church. I’m loving it. Its playing with my mind and my assumptions of the traditional church as well as the emergent church. One of the issues dealt with in the book is how we allow to people to be a part of the community of believers. It [...]
On the last blog post I received a comment that said, “What does living missionally even mean?” (or something like that). I immediately started thinking. Perhaps this concept is just foreign to a lot of people and therefore the reason why more people aren’t living this way. So, we’ll address this in the next blog [...]
On Wednesday of last week I had the opportunity to sit in a room with about 20 very missionally minded people and have a conversation with Don Golden, co-author of Jesus Wants To Save Christians. It was a pretty weighty conversation that revolved mostly around our theology. My spirit was wrestling. God is clearly taking [...]
Wrestling with a lot and rediscovering my blog at the same time. Here’s a question that I ran across today. Because there are paid/ordained clergy, do you think unintentionally/intentionally people assume there is no need to serve or live missionally? I.e. Why should I, that guy is paid to do it? It intrigued me because [...]
Randomly just wondering what you think about communion. How does your church experience communion together? What makes it special for you? Do you think you see it differently than most? Why?
All skate…communion.
This is a comment from a friend and fellow creative Chris. It was a comment, but was just so good it needed to go on the front page. It’s in response to “how to be creative:
starting from nothing… immersion in the idea or the process.
if it’s about playing with a concept, kick it around and [...]
alright all you creatives out there
when you have a craving to create
what’s your method
how does it come out
how do you get going
All Skate…
I’m lasering my focus in on relationships both vertical and horizontal, meaning I want stuff that deals with my relationship upward and His relationship downward as well as my relationship outward, and everyone else’s relationship inward toward me.
What’s the best advice you’ve heard on relationships as it applies to either of the above?
What are [...]
There’s nothing so lovely and so ugly as that weird place of tension that we must all sit in at some point or another where you long to be in the “place you know God has put on your heart” while at the same time you are in the place God has put on your [...]
Josh Agerton commented on a post that I did yesterday about being in the world, but looking different. He basically said, “think about these two statements, they’re very different aren’t they.” So I’m wondering, what do you think of the following statements. Do they seem different to you? How do they affect you?
Be in the [...]
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