Category: Church
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ABCs of success
One of the problems I have with the church growth movement is that it adopted methods with the assumption that methods are value neutral. This is false: some methods by their very nature distort the message. Focusing on method we bought uncritically into worldly assumptions about how the world works. Most insidious of these…
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Missional Church
Missional Church – LifeWiki Ah….Now this is more like it. A pretty good start on the definition of a missional church. Now…how does one transform from a from a traditional 100+ denominational church into a missional church?
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Real Grace Ministry
Helping “the poor” This has been on my mind and there is much rattling around regarding issues of poverty in America and what can be done. Perhaps I first need to make something clear. Poverty in America is of a different degree than poverty in the rest of the world. It seems that our lifestyle…
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On Humility
If there is good in you, see more good in others, so that you may remain humble. It does no harm to esteem yourself less than anyone else, but it is very harmful to think yourself better than even one. The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy…
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Reading with [different] Eyes
For the searching and right understanding of the Scriptures there is need of a good life and a pure soul, and for Christian virtue to guide the mind to grasp, so far as human nature can, the truth concerning God the Word. One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a…