Category: Church
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Brian McLaren on Becoming Emergent
Link to the PDF file. Here McLaren tries, to share his background and biography as he moved to emergent. Of course many might already have seen this, but I post it for those who come here from non-emergent backgrounds…
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Vintage Faith: Reality Church?
Vintage Faith: Reality Church? Ah…I loved this post from Dan Kimball. He has 10 stages…of course, these are not ‘scientific’ stages (he has a disclaimer at the end), but it is enjoyable reading and I see myself in much there. Not sure what stage I’m at now. Perhaps around stage 5 or right before stage…
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Post-protestant
“Yes, post-Protestant churches see everything as spiritual formation — everything worth doing, that is. Public worship is an exercise in group spiritual formation through rituals like the Eucharist and preaching. Fellowship is exercise in the spiritual practices of community. The success of a church isn’t measured by the numbers who attend but by the formation…
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VBS Done
Well, it was a pretty good week for our VBS. We allow kids from age 3 through grade 5 to participate. We had no idea we would have about 18 preschoolers there…man…do they have energy. Last year we decided to do VBS a bit differently. We decided to begin it on Sunday instead of Monday…
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Church Structue
Well, I kept hearing about podcasting so I’d thought I’d check it out. I understand the concept, yet, on dialup it isn’t as easy. To make a long story shorter, I was finally able to figure out a way to automatically dial the internet (after midnight) to download a 15 meg podcast. The dialing up…