Church
Straight From The Horses Mouth
A guy I follow offered the following quote from Bill Hybels. I don’t have the exact source but I have to believe it is true.
“The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.” – Bill Hybals
Do you buy that statement?
Straight From The Horses Mouth
“The irony is that even within Christian churches, we’re already post-denominational. Christian churches are already seeing that the issues that defined the denominations are mostly dead issues for people today. The connections are across denominations. Amazing movement called the emerging church. Not only says, ‘to hell with denominations but to hell with church building, traditions [...]
Straight From The Horses Mouth
I’m reading The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. He is for all intents and purposes the guy who crystallized a specific means of thinking: the ends justify the means. He died out of favor himself, but ended up being extremely influential in political and social thought. I don’t agree with everything he said but this quote [...]
The Teaching Of The Twelve Blog Tour
Tony Jones has a new book out called, The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing and Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community by Paraclete Press. It explore the little known document call the Didache (DID-ah-kay), an ancient text written around the same time as the early Gospels. As part of this blog tour, [...]
Exploring The Didache
Tony Jones has a new book coming out on the Didache (pronounced DID-ah-kay) called The Teaching of the Twelve: Believing & Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community. It’s a Jesus Way kind of book written before anyone could co-opt the word. I kind of wonder if this is the first emerging [...]
