It feels a bit ominous to read the blog reviews of Brian McLaren’s latest – A New Kind of Christianity. The book is raising quite a stink. No surprise eh? One gets the sense there is something different going on this time versus the last couple book releases of Brian’s: The Secret Message and Everything [...]
One more “Dallas Willard note” from the Ecclesia Network National Gathering. The Gathering this past week proved to be a special time for the many of us gathered there to learn more how to lead our communities into Mission. Dallas Willard offered challenge after challenge. You can see highlights by going to the Tweet Twub [...]
I’m at the Ecclesia Network Gathering in Chevy Chase MD (Washington DC). I sit on the board here and I highly recommend the Network as a place to land for those seeking a network of support, guidance and energy around all things missional. I’ve been blessed to be around a great gathering of missional church [...]
We’re in the middle of some conflicts at our church. Isn’t everybody? Conflict/differences are part of everyday life. I am a pastor alongside other pastors trying to lead a church amidst a post Christendom which isn’t entirely here yet. When we have conflicts, we view them as the point at which God works in the [...]
Leave it to Michael Spencer (aka Internet Monk) to find a label that captures what so many of us have been feeling about church for the past few decades. His label “Mere Churchianity” describes (for me) the malaise of continuing to go through the motions of church when we have lost touch with why we [...]