Pilgrim March
Thoughts on Life as a Spiritual Journey
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Emerging Church Perspectives
I’ve heard a friend say that defining the emerging church is like trying to nail Jell-o to the wall. It doesn’t have any formal institution or maintain a set of doctrines or membership requirements. It is, when defined by its adherents something of a conversation that is categorized more by ethos than doctrine. The people who are a part [...]
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Good News for the Church in America
A new survey is about religion in America is out and here’s the summary from a CNN article: America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found. there has been [...]
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Monkey and the Fish
This is a book about becoming water. It is a call for churches and ministries to become adaptable, flexible, and fluid with their cultural surroundings. Gibbons points to the increasing globalization occurring as the primary reason driving the need for churches to become this way. Neighborhoods are becoming more diverse, and the amount of cultural information [...]
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Resident Aliens
This book is written to challenge churches to avoid become places filled with nice people, pastors, and purposes. Too often in the American church landscape, the church co-opts the language and issues of the day and then simply rephrases them in Christian speak. They don’t say anything too controversial or counter-cultural. Willimon and Hauerwas challenge [...]
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Theology of the ECC
I’ve just wrapped up an orientation course called Theology of the Evangelical Covenant Church. I have to take a bunch of courses with the ECC as a part of completing my ‘orientation’ to the ECC in order to be ordained by them. I took a couple classes about 4 years ago that have since been [...]
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Olson, The American Church in Crisis
I just finished reading Dave Olson’s book: Dave Olson leads the church planting movement at the Evangelical Covenant, of which I am a part. This book is a persuasively written statistical analysis of the current state of the American church. With clarity and insight, Olson shows that with each passing year a smaller percentage of [...]
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Jesus, hold the church, please
Over the last couple of years, I’ve heard or read about a number of people who want Jesus but aren’t interested in the church. They look up to Jesus, and they even want to follow him. However, when they look at the church they see a corrupt organization that doesn’t truly represent Jesus. They do [...]
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