Given the diversity and polarization of our culture, we frequently find people hold starkly differing perspectives. So different, in fact, that they sometimes seem more like alternate perceptions of reality rather than just different opinions. In this current political season, evidence of this divide between people is painfully obvious. But politics is not the only [...]
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What’s Next?
Posted in christlikeness, re-thinking church, showing love to the world, the christian life, the Kingdom of God, tagged rethinking church, the Kingdom of God on October 18, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The High Price of Belonging
Posted in faith community, re-thinking church, tagged faith community, institutional church, rethinking church on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the things I feel most acutely in this particular stage of my life is the sensation of being alone. No, against all odds, Susan hasn’t tired of me and asked me to leave. I have not been cast out by anyone. I know of no place I would care to go where I [...]
There’s a line out the door at Joshua’s Restaurant
Posted in discipleship, re-thinking church, the Kingdom of God, tagged discipleship, grace, institutional church, rethinking church, the Kingdom of God on August 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Joshua was a man on a mission. He had a business concept paired up with passion. He wanted to open a restaurant that would introduce his neighbors in his new adopted home in America to the cuisine of his homeland, Basileia. Though his new home was in a large metropolitan city, there were very few [...]
YOU tell me.
Posted in discipleship, institutional church, re-thinking church, tagged institutional church, Jesus, rethinking church, revolutionaries on July 29, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Those who study trends among American Christians suggest that there is a change taking place in some believers’ attitudes toward the church. I think that they are right, and I have been forming a theory as to why. So I want to ask you to help me test a hypothesis. If 1) you aspire to [...]