I was just getting ready to do a blog on the comparison of heresy in the first few centuries to that of today since today is so much like the 1st century, when I received a post from one of the members (Anne) of our Advanced Leadership Forum asking if our group had seen […]
Leadership Network is doing a blog tour for the new book, A Multi-Site Church Road Trip, by Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird. I have been asked to participate with the bloggers. I was asked to submit a question to which the three would respond.
Here is my question to Geoff, Greg, and Warren.
“What […]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the growing use of the word “missional” to describe the church. I’ve seen so many definitions of the word that it makes my head spin. Still, I offer you another definition in the hopes of simplifying the issue.
A missional church is a baptized community of people called […]
There seems to be a movement underfoot to discourage people from wishing one another a Merry Christmas. “We don’t want to offend anyone, so let’s water it down and just say ‘Happy Holidays’.” Hmmmmm. Something’s wrong with this picture.
To wish someone a Merry Christmas is the same as proclaiming the “good news of great […]
In my early years as a pastor (from the 60s through the 80s) I remember people saying that liberals focused on social justice mostly to the exclusion of evangelism, and evangelicals focused on evangelism mostly to the exclusion of social justice. In fact, many of the theological differences during those years were crystallized in the dichotomy between social justice […]
The term “Black Friday” began to be used in the 1960s mostly in the east, but since 2000 it has caught on across the country. The term refers to the day when retailers make their move to being in “the black” financially. Yeah, we all know that people go crazy the day after Thanksgiving – it must […]
I began reading seriously about the Missional Church in the 90s with books like God’s Missionary People by Charles Van Engen, and The Continuing Conversion of the Church by Darrell Guder. I resonated deeply with their writings and saw many of the things they wrote about being lived out in my ministry while a […]
I sat watching my recorded session of “Meet The Press”. I had a tear in my eye. 20 years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and freedom was returned to East Germany. It was a great sight to watch again how the people from both sides of the Wall celebrated its destruction. Hammers, picks, […]
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Pray the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Jesus directly asked us to pray that more leaders would be sent out into their networks to reap a spiritual harvest. Yet, I find most pastors seldom pray for leaders to go into the […]