Satisfying the Hunger
About this blog
Satisfying the Hunger... is a blog written by the ministry staff of Evangelism & Church Growth
Recent posts
- Simple Church?
- One of the Challenges for Missional Church Planting in Urban North America
- The Prayer of the Troubled Heart
- The dog days of summer
- Discipleship, learning to value what the Lord values....
Categories
- Evangelism (2)
- Advent (1)
- Worship (1)
- View all categories →
Archives
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
Share Christmas
“If I showed up at a church, the walls would probably fall in.” That is, unfortunately, how many unchurched people feel about intersecting with the church. It is their way of saying: My life is too messed up for me to have a place in the church. In Luke 5, the disciples were eating and drinking with tax collectors and those whom the religious community regarded as sinners. The Pharisees thought the disciples should stay with “their own kind,” but Jesus responded: “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:31-32) In other words, it’s the very ones who think their lives are too messed up for Jesus who are the ones Jesus invites to share a meal with him.
- Posted at 9:19 a.m.
- Permalink
December 1, 2011
I am not a fan of the cross
I am not a fan of the cross, my cross that is. I am overwhelmed with joy at the cross of Jesus, but as a church leader I am not a fan of taking up MY cross and following Jesus. Don’t get me wrong I like the principle, not the implementation. I teach that we are to follow Jesus all the time. I simply rarely apply the cross to my church leadership. I follow Thomas Jefferson’s approach to the Bible, I eliminate passages that I cannot explain or that go against my agenda.
- Posted at 2:11 p.m.
- Permalink
December 1, 2011
Learning to Speak Missionally
How do we begin to train ourselves to be missional? John Addison Dally in his book "Choosing the Kingdom" talks about preaching in a way that I find helpful for organizing sermons. But more than sermons, I think it is a helpful way for us to form language and images for a witness that practices missionality. Though I will present these ideas in a linear fashion, they need not be thought of as linear in nature, just parts of how our conversation with each other and the world should go.
How do we begin to train ourselves to be missional? John Addison Dally in his book "Choosing the Kingdom" talks about preaching in a way that I find helpful for organizing sermons. But more than sermons, I think it is a helpful way for us to form language and images for a witness that practices missionality. Though I will present these ideas in a linear fashion, they need not be thought of as linear in nature, just parts of how our conversation with each other and the world should go.
- Posted at 2:08 p.m.
- Permalink