Browsing all posts in February, 2010.
missional living // part the second
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 [...]
paid clergy // missional living
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 [...]
missional // living
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 [...]
deep church // the third way
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 [...]
family // this week
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 [...]
living missionally // or not
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 [...]
insecurity // my hope
Removing a mask. I struggle with insecurity. There. It’s out there. After processing this for quite some time, I think it comes from several places. The first is that I have a very works based mentality when it comes to relationships because of my understanding growing up of how I related to God. I felt [...]
message prep // my mind
sometimes it takes me more than a sheet of paper to figure out how I’m going to communicate the message for Sunday morning…
Uganda // Invitation
In November of 09, a whirlwind of a month, Kristen and I were able to join Josh Agerton and Christopher Slagley on a trip to Buloba, Uganda. We have been partnering with a church in Buloba for the last few years and have seen God move in big ways. One of our goals while we [...]
still // there
Is Haiti still at the forefront of my mind today? Is human trafficking still making me angry today? Is the AIDs epidemic in Zambia still affecting my thinking today? Is the hunger of the talibes in Senegal still creating a painful stir in my spirit today? Is the lack of clean water to a huge [...]
