Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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The Unimaginative Church
I see that Eugene Peterson has been credited with saying that if the church is dying in any way it’s dying from lack of imagination. I’ve seen at least three churches in my general area have “Try our Sundays, they are better than [Name of Ice Cream place].” Based on the above, I guess I…
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Top 10 List on Why we are Dying…
Here’s my top 10 list on why are we dying? I’m sure there are others…. 10) Because we believe salvation is within our walls. 9) Because we are so busy with our own “stuff” 8) Because we have no idea what we are doing and we stopped being a long time ago. 7) Because we…
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Structuring Church
Now…for some ramblings…. I’m a structure kind of guy. I use to be a Systems Administrator (computer) and so systems and structures facinate me. Now, I’m bringing the same thought process into the church. But recently I’ve been looking at things differently. I use to be into programs and stuff, now, I think as a…
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Church People…
The party was great – hotdogs, hamburgers, squirt guns for the kids, dads trying to get charcoal lit, moms passing around Baby Hudson like he was a football. An interesting realization hit me about halfway through the party as I was flipping burgers. No one there with the exception of myself, Amber, and her…
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Brian McLaren on Becoming Emergent
Link to the PDF file. Here McLaren tries, to share his background and biography as he moved to emergent. Of course many might already have seen this, but I post it for those who come here from non-emergent backgrounds…
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Vintage Faith: Reality Church?
Vintage Faith: Reality Church? Ah…I loved this post from Dan Kimball. He has 10 stages…of course, these are not ‘scientific’ stages (he has a disclaimer at the end), but it is enjoyable reading and I see myself in much there. Not sure what stage I’m at now. Perhaps around stage 5 or right before stage…