Organic 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 [...]
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 [...]
[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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“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” – Alfred Hitchcock. I believe Mr Hitchcock was right. I also think that we can say something similar in regards to sermons in church: “The length of a sermon should be directly related to the endurance of the human [...]
What do we believe? How do we operate? What sort of structure do we abide by? There are some of the questions I had after deciding that the way I had always “Done church” just wasn’t cutting it. But what was a viable Biblical alternative? Over the past couple of years, I’ve compiled a few [...]
As a mother of children currently ages 4, 2, and 6 months; at the first mention of meeting in homes as a body of believers, I thought “What do we do with the kids?” and I often still wonder “What do we do with the kids?”. When we met with two other families with young kids in [...]
..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. [...]
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