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03 September 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Why Christians Send

Last week I took a small, rhetorical swipe at Mark Driscoll. I came across this clip, and I sure like it. Too bad he didn't take his challenge a bit further and say, "We need people who will start a church in their house." In any case, thanks, Mark! Tweet This Post

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27 August 2010 ~ 10 Comments

Wimpy Men

Wimpy Men

Where are the men? This past week I have gotten a few emails about Mark Driscoll's article in The Washington Post about boys who essentially never grow up and turn into men.  He writes: Rather than moving from boy to man by this succession of sociological transitions, we've created something called adolescence. It's a third [...]

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02 July 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Deep or Wide

Deep or Wide

Is your church nurturing or is it a “weapon of mass induction” when it comes to the Kingdom of God? Most of us want to answer “both” but I don’t think this very often true.  Churches are, for the most part, great at defense (teaching, pasturing, caring, and nurturing) and terrible at offense (going, evangelizing, [...]

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21 June 2010 ~ 10 Comments

House Church Aversion

House Church Aversion

The house church movement in the USA is weak and anemic compared to the same movement in other nations. Barna’s research on the size of the house church movement gives a huge range (anywhere from 4% to 33%) depending on the definition “house church.” I think the lower end numbers are much better guestimates.   In [...]

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05 March 2010 ~ 10 Comments

Liar! Liar! The current missiological debate on contextualization rages on…

Liar! Liar!  The current missiological debate on contextualization rages on…

There is a lot of communication happening on the “contextualization” front. For some years, some missionaries have been using ministry forms which are highly indigenous in nature and rely on sources from within other religious traditions to make their case.  Others have been highly critical of this approach.  This dialogue has a language all its [...]

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11 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Why Missional Churches are not Mission Minded

Why Missional Churches are not Mission Minded

Last fall Ed Stetzer wrote about the fact that many missional churches are not that missionary oriented.  If you read that and think, “What are you talking about?” then you should click over to Ed’s article and see what he says. I agree with much of Ed’s viewpoint on this, but I think the problem [...]

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16 April 2009 ~ 9 Comments

Mega-Church Series Part 1

I have been getting some feedback about past posts regarding my thoughts on mega-churches. So it’s time to come clean and let you know where I am on this topic. I am going to post about mega-churches over a number of weeks. To get the ball rolling I am going to give you a few [...]

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07 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Sling Church

Over the past few months I have been spending a great deal of time thinking about the house church movement. I believe that the house church model is, after many years, gaining some traction in the United States. It’s very exciting to me, and I am looking forward to the House2House conference in Dallas later [...]

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23 June 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Chinese Church

Great article for your reading pleasure at the Chicago Tribune. Check it out and let me know your thoughts: Jesus in China Tweet This Post

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16 June 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Who’s a better missionary?

The House Church Touching Neighborhoods Globally Which church planter do you think is better prepared to start a church planting movement in their new culture? Jim or Wendy? Jim was an experienced church planter from the sunny Southwest states. He had been on teams that had started 2 churches sent out from Grace Community, a [...]

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