Organic Church
This makes me so sad: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com But I appreciate the fact that the reporter got it right, this kid has a passion for the pulpit, and all the excitement it represents. It also illustrates how worthless most pastors have become today. Oh, and for anyone who isn’t familiar with the [...]
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Our family doesn’t always visit a brick and mortar church, but when we do, my wife and I have a system to handle the parking conundrum. You see, we typically go to one of the many megachurches in the area and parking is predictably a nightmare. So what we generally do is ride around the [...]
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Felicity Dale has written an excellent series of posts intended to answer the question “Do organic/simple churches believe in leadership?”. Here is an excellent video which I believe summarizes what the Bible teaches with regard to leadership in the Body of Christ: Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the [...]
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Recently I Tweeted “Senior pastor” is found in the Bible, its 1 Peter 5:4 and it refers to Jesus, not the CEO of your local church business. Based off of this post on Alan Knox’s blog. Here’s my extended take on the issue. Senior pastors, indeed all professional pastors, bear a burden they were never meant to [...]
We have an expression in the south, “Chewing the fat”. Fat is often the source of the best flavor, and it generally sticks around for a while like bubble gum. However it really doesn’t have much (if any) nutritional value. So to chew the fat is to partake in something that is enjoyable, but ultimately [...]
Recently a friend and fellow house church enthusiast alerted me to a division within the fellowship he is a member of. The division centered on doctrine, with one member apparently upset that the rest of the group did not appreciate the reformed doctrine he ascribed to. Without addressing the doctrines in question, I wanted to [...]
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It is a thoroughly biblical concept that members in the Body of Christ should expect to receive and dispense discipline in keeping with the repeated admonitions throughout scripture to build one another up in maturity. So if that is the case; Why do most church members end up leaving after one of the staff or [...]
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In a conversation regarding the post, Why I don’t want to go to your church, I came to the revelation that even if pastors and church staff are aware of the issue of declining church attendance that plagues most churches in America today, they still manage to miss the reason for the decline and thus [...]
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[HT Alan Knox] Alan shares a list of things he doesn’t worry about as a pastor (teaching elder) in a home church context. They include: getting fired for saying the wrong thing sermon preparation week after week finding someone to “fill in” budgets1 the meeting place number of participants2 I find it amazing how prevalent professional pastor [...]
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