“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 church …
Things I Noticed In The Nines
This is an on-going update on free The Nines conference. It will be updated as the conference goes. ——————————————————————————————————- Scott Hodge has more energy than the Energizer Bunny and I like it. Dave Ferguson talked about the five steps in apprenticeship. But he never mentioned what someone does. In the first 90 minutes not one …
The Professional Christian
I have a friend who is a pastor. And sometimes I think he secretly wishes he could dump the label. One of the tensions I see in the church is the dichotomy between the pastor and the members of the church. The system is actually designed to help foster this tension. There’s a guy up …
The Professional Christian
I have a friend who is a pastor. And sometimes I think he secretly wishes he could dump the label. One of the tensions I see in the church is the dichotomy between the pastor and the members of the church. The system is actually designed to help foster this tension. There’s a guy up …
The Cult Of Personality
Popout [RSS - See Embedded Video - 1:55] DJ Chuang, of Leadership Network shares his insights on churches launching multi-site Internet campuses. He shared how this specific category has grown from 3 to 33 in the last year, that he knows of. This is essentially, in my opinion, an extension of multi-site model of church, …
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