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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 [...]

Ethical Standards // holding believers to them

In working through a commentary on 1st Peter and once again having my preconceptions of a book of the Bible transformed, I ran across this idea this morning that the authored presented and found it highly intriguing. Scot McKnight suggested that due to heavy influence of legalism in the last century (and I would add [...]

community culture // church culture

Someone asked me this the other day. What are your thoughts? what do you do when leading in your church culture means that you have to neglect leading the community culture

Called Out // to look different

I hear this phrase often. “You are to look different than the world.” Or, “I question those ‘believers’ who look like the world.” Or, “That church is too worldly.” And when I hear these phrases, I wonder what they really mean. I understand that Scripture over and again that we have been “called out” or [...]

Culture…

Culture is a thought that is constantly rolling over in my mind. How do we engage it? How do we create it? So I ran across this video of Derek Webb talking about the Bible and culture and how we engage it. What do you think?

culture

What does it mean to “transcend culture”? I wrote last week about cultural relevance and how that’s just not good enough for the church. We ought to be putting out great artists, incredible musicians, excellent communicators, unique and original voices that lead culture rather than merely “keeping up” with what just happened (that’s what people [...]

Pink Floyd

We started a new series today at Cornerstone called Cha-Ching. It’s a financial series. Oh no, the church is talking about money! Run! Please don’t ask me to actually think about where my money goes or what I am doing with it! Please don’t ask me to put Christ first in my money. I don’t [...]

Creative Chaos Post #1

This is my first time taking part in the Creative Chaos that goes on over at ragamuffinsoul.com Its kind of a repost as I have already linked up this video once, but I wanted to take part in this community of creativity (while following all of the rules of Creative Chaos). We are in a [...]