Tag: missional
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Missional Opportunity
I wonder how other people feel about doing "good works" but not "stamping" Jesus all over what we do. I’ve had some conversations with people at my church and many feel it is giving God glory to let people know the reason why we are doing what we are doing is because of what Jesus…
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Church Thang
God still calls out to all who will listen. SOmetimes I feel like, in the church, we have God all figured out. Sometimes I feel like we believe that if God is going to work he must and has to work through us. Of course, this isn’t the first time people believed this. Jesus was…
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Success
This article (http://www.theofframp.org/emerging.html)encourages me. I’ve been thinking along these lines for quite a while. However, I’ve felt like I was “odd” as far as the pastorate was concerned. I felt that if I wasn’t part of the ‘church growth’ group or the ‘saddleback’ group or the ‘willow creek’ group, then I wasn’t being faithful, or…
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Emergent Village – WWJ…Be? I never really got…
Emergent Village – WWJ…Be? I never really got into the whole “WWJD” craze. Deep down, I felt that something was missing. I believe Javad Shadzi hits the mark. I remember in seminary being introduced to “being vs doing.” I was squarly in the doing camp. It is so easy, to forget that God wants to…