Guerilla Ecclesiology
Church has to be more than just programs, strategem, cell groups, and services. If being the church is an idea that resonates with new testament christian spirituality [more so than…
Kinesthetic Spirituality
Kinesthetic spirituality is the understanding that our actions and our bodies play a role in our discipleship, that what we do actually matters to God and that He is concerned…
how can i keep from singing?
After spending a few hours with my friends Paul and Heidi yesterday, Paul called me with one more thought. See, we’d talked a lot about the high failure rate in…
Ministry is like lifeguarding
Ministry is like lifeguarding. It’s an old comparison, but an appropriate one. The recent shark attacks in North Carolina remind me that the job of the lifeguard is not to…
WHEN YOUR CHURCH GOES THROUGH TRANSITION
Anytime a church loses a pastor, there is the potential to lose ground in the areas of their expertise. But these transitions also present opportunities for the church to pull…
JARGON DOESN’T REJUVENATE
Every season of Christian ministry gets faddish. Eventually, all the conferences and resources and vocabulary that once felt fresh become stale and jargon-esque. I’ve been traveling a lot the last…
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