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 [...]
Continue reading about Child preachers and the power of the pulpit
I have read a lot about David Platt’s first bestseller, Radical, so when I saw his latest book, Radical Together, on the list of books to review for booksneeze.com, I jumped at the chance. Radical Together is meant to explain how to take what David wrote in his first book, Radical, and live them out. [...]
Continue reading about Book review: Radical Together by David Platt
Gabe Lyon brings into clear focus the mountains that modern Christians will need to move if they are to avoid being altogether cast from serious public consideration. In his book, The Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America first accurately diagnoses the problem facing Christianity in America and then offers an [...]
Continue reading about Book Review: The Next Christians by Gabe Lyon
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 [...]
Continue reading about Distributed parking, distributed leadership
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 [...]
Continue reading about The upside down leadership model of the Christian church
In a recent Baptist Press article titled “When people criticize church leadership”, Thom Rainer took on the task of addressing why it is that The level and frequency of criticisms toward pastors and other leaders has increased significantly in the past several years. Thom’s observations begin with: First, the standards of church membership have been [...]
There are at least three elements that make up a solid defender of the Christian faith. Training You can’t fight if you don’t know how. You might be able to flail about, but you won’t be very effective. What’s worse is that you are just as likely to hurt yourself and those on your side [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Why I’m not enthusiastic about your church either
Here is an excellent presentation by Don Stensing which is part of a series designed to examine why it is that church attendance in America is on a downward trend. I think a key question in he asks is this: Is the Gospel less relevant to Americans than before? Or is it that churches are [...]
Continue reading about Why I don’t want to come to your church
I had a revelation the other day about the state of the Christian church. This revelation came while talking with a friend of mine who told me a story about a family member who recently “felt called” to go be a missionary (as if that werent possible where they were at). They lamented that their [...]
Continue reading about False maturity and its impact on the Christian church
Recent Comments