Joe Manafo has launched a wonderful resource exploring communion and worship called Tabled that you will want to spend some time exploring.
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Top Six Tactical Mistakes that Churches Make
An excellent list by Bill Easum. Mistake Number One -failure to combine evangelism and social justice into the fabric of the church. The entire debate between traditional and emergent churches stems from this failure. Any form of reductionism truncates the Gospel. He followed up his top six mistakes with two more in his next post. [...]
John Stackhouse Critiques Chris Tomlin’s “writing”
His critique made me laugh out loud today I don’t know Chris Tomlin personally. I expect he’s a nice man and a devoted Christian. So please be clear that I’m not attacking his sincerity or his love of Jesus or anything else I can’t possibly judge. What the evidence shows, however, is that he is [...]
A bigger waste of resources?
Everywhere I drive these days I see advertisements in front of churches advertising their Christmas pageant or Christmas cantata. It made me wonder if there is anything else in the church year that compares to this in terms of energy, money, and time expended which provides so little impact for the community. I know I [...]
Worship as Evangelism
Sally Morgenthaller is rethinking worship evangelism Two years ago I taught my last seminar focused solely on worship. A year ago I disbanded my worship resource site, Sacramentis. My colleagues were concerned. How could I leave the work I’d begun? Did it mean I no longer believed worship was important? Who was going to take [...]
