“We are against Halloween,” one minister recently told me. This is a common response I get from folks in the church. That, and: “We are against homosexuals, abortion, environmentalists, liberals, social-gospel types, postmodernists, illegal immigrants, people-who-worship-like-that, health-care reform, and redistribution.” As some Christians follow in the footsteps of partisan politicians, it remains an easy habitContinue reading “Redefining Christian Witness”
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The real source for congregational leadership is the Bible
About every 20 years, new models for how to do church ministry and congregational leadership pop up. Some of the most recent models include emergent, missional, or kingdom-centered paradigms. And the list goes on. If this isn’t bad enough, church leaders fight amongst themselves about which model is more effective, all the while failing toContinue reading “The real source for congregational leadership is the Bible”
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