Clergy
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 [...]
..or “why the way we traditionally ‘do church’ hurts us in ways we can’t even begin to fathom.” A random stranger recently asked: Myself and many others find mutual edification every Sunday. If all you ever did to worship in a regular, organized church setting is passively listen to one man then I’m sorry for you. [...]
My wife and I recently got a chance to see Disney’s remake of Charles Dickens‘ Christmas Carol. We opted not to take the kids since we were warned that this version was a lot more true to Dicken’s original intent, which was largely to expose the brutal cruelty industrialization coupled with mindless material obsession. Such a warning was [...]
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Daniel, Thanks for taking the time to ask to clairify my words from earlier, and I trust that you understand that because my statement was made to the general clergy/laity split it was not directed at you personally. At the outset I want to acknowledge that there are clergy like yourself and Christ Wyatt who [...]
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