“What are you doing to get word out about your church?” I hate this question. “How big is your church? ” I hate that question even more. One reason (amongst many) why I never wanted to pastor was I’m just not someone who is a “Church Pimp” – selling my church like its better than… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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But the intent of Christmas is something totally different. The Child in the crib is not an ideal. It is only our love and often our sentimentality which have turned his story into an ideal… Crib and cross—they are both of the same wood, they are of a piece. And I believe that all this,… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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I went in there wondering if Bono was a Christian, and I came out wondering if I was. Overheard at a Willow Creek pastor’s conference session featuring a video presentation of a discussion between Bill Hybels and Bono. From the November 13th Newsweek, “An Evangelical Identity Crisis” (I realized I did not provide a link… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you man murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that. From “Where Do We Go From Here?” by Martin… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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‘In my experience and observation simply offering better Bible teaching has not produced better disciples.’ Or put another way – ‘it hasn’t worked’…. I hear many people looking for churches with ‘good teaching’, but I am yet to hear anyone seeking a church that is committed to ‘doing the Bible stuff’. From the Backyard Missionary
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“It is, I gently suggest, a serious error to make “outreach” a primary goal of the local congregation, and especially so when those who are already “with us” have not become clear-headed and devoted apprentices of Jesus, and are not, for the most part, solidly progressing along the path. Outreach is one essential task of… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
Peterson Quote: Source
A few of you asked me what issue of Radix the Peterson quotation was from. Here it is: Radix Volume 32 #3 Thanks to Kim Williams in the Fuller DMin office for the article.
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“It destroys the people in the big churches, because they are no longer dealing with community; they’re just part of a crowd. In the vaunted small-group movement—which certainly has some good things going for it (probably earlier on, more than now)—people say, ‘Well, we take care of community by having small groups.’ Well, those aren’t… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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“And thus when we want an authentic experience of communion with Christ, the church is often the last place we think of–it’s full of all those fallen people. Instead, we retreat from the church into private prayer. There we have only one sinner to account for, and we imagine that with a little fervent prayer… Continue reading Quotation of the Week
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“It is likely that our theological problem in the church is that our gospel is a story believed, shaped, and transmitted by the dispossessed; and we are now a church of possessions for whom the rhetoric of the dispossessed is offensive and their promise is irrelevant. And we are left to see if it is… Continue reading Quotation of the Week