While singing in church during our service on Sunday, it hit me that there’s is a very insidious vein in a lot of modern worship these days, beyond the shallow theology, the ‘Jesus is my girlfriend’ stuff, and the six million chorus repeats without even a key change.
It is the pronoun, “I.”
I think something just [...]
This is the whole thing:
How to take a church from 14 families to 40 families in only 10 years of bivocational ministry
Read the Bible. Pray. Talk to your church friends in long conversations over meals and coffee for years and years. Learn to love each other so that whatever you do in church gets filtered [...]
So one of the requisites of being in Student Leadership at Tyndale (Student Council President – no big deal) is a weekly hourly session that involves talking about important aspects of being in Christian leadership: spiritual discipline, mentoring, community, and discipleship. We’ve been talking about community for the last month and it is starting to [...]
I wasn’t sure if I should post this, since it is about someone particular and not the machine, but then I said, “Hey. My Blog. Comments are go. I’m opening myself up for conversation, to be corrected if need be.” So here goes:
The New York times just put out a piece on Marc Driscoll, from [...]
This is a follow-up to my last post about feeling alienated in the North American Church.
So I’ve been speaking with quite a few of you out there. Some have responded directly to the blog in the comments (always appreciated), while others have communicated with me face to face and online elsewhere. There seems to be [...]
I’m starting to think that there is very little middle ground in North American Christian circles.
It seems that you are either a social and economic conservative, intent on ‘keeping to a literal interpretation of the Bible,’ and espousing a very strong set of convictions (see my posts on Evangelicalism),
or
you are a social and economic liberal, [...]
So we’ve come to our last of the quadrilateral, activism.
Bebbington defines it as: the belief that the gospel needs to expressed in effort. I define it as: the belief that the gospel needs to be expressed in effort to make Christianity the predominant Culture, ridding the evils of any one else’s point-of-view.
Out of all 4 [...]
(Originally Published April 21, 2006 on http://www.wkinchlea.blogspot.com)
After strolling around on the internet the other day, I found myself upon the Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator.
Some of my regular readers (and by some I mean the vast majority) have no idea what Web 2.0 is, and for the matter at hand, that’s ok. The point is, I found it funny, [...]
Church is a funny thing.
For the sake of clarity, let’s define church in a really narrow way today; in about the same way that we say we are going ‘to do church (insert descriptor here) today.’ In other words, today, church is going to mean communal times of worship, fellowship and learning, the norm being [...]