Category: Church
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What’s the Point???
Read this post and found myself wondering…if low number can be good (God’s winnowing) or bad (reflecting a group becoming too exclusive) and if high numbers can be good (God’s spirit moving) or bad (people coming for wrong reasons), then what’s the point of numbers? Do we really need to count the heads to know…
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N. T. Wright on Resources for the Gospel writers
It seems to me that the evangelists may well have faced, as a major task, the problem not so much of how to cobble together enough tradition to make a worthwhile book, but of how to work out what to include from the welter of available material. The old idea that the evangelists must have…
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Different Strokes
I keep forgetting that in a church there are various types of individuals. There are some, who seeing the church as they would any other organization, will take part in its programs, its committees and other activities even though, they don’t understand the deeper issues of being sent or that Jesus calls them. There are…
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More and More Convinced
I am being more and more convinced that the best route for the UMC would be to do two things: 1) Get rid of membership. 2) Stop asking for church statistics. I write these things because I believe if we stopped doing those two things, we would have to revisit what it means to be…
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Missional Thoughts
As I continue to study the missional church I find myself believing that this is what “church” is meant to be. At the core, being missional is understanding and believing that you are “sent.” (See John 20:21). Yet, I find most of the time my tradition focuses on making disciples (Matt 28:19-20) while overlooking the…