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
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity by Mark A. Noll
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