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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
The promise of the New Covenant is this: “„I will put My laws into
their minds, I will write them upon their hearts. I will be their God
and they shall be My people. And they shall not teach every one his
fellow-citizen, and everyone his brother saying, „Know the Lord,‟ for
all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. I will be merciful
to their
iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.‟”
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 |
Shane Claiborne writes: “Being a Christian is about choosing Jesus and
deciding to do something incredibly daring with your life.”
In my former life as a pastor, I was a dispenser of comfortable
Christianity. I took on the job of creating a “conducive environment”
for worship. What this really meant was making a worship event cushy
enough that people would want to come and then come back: comfortable
seats, coffee, pleasing worship music, and a sermon that holds
attention. Unfortunately, regularly attending a comfortable worship
event has become the primary marker of what it means to be a Christian
today.
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
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(also known as The Christian Bubble or The Holy Huddle)
For those unfamiliar with the term, the Christian Ghetto is a slang
term used by many Christians to describe much of popular, mainstream
Christianity. As the word ghetto would imply, Christians have isolated
themselves from the world, and have created a distinct Christian
culture, with its own language (Christianese), its own music, its own
clothing, etc. The Christian Ghetto results from a mentality that sees
any exposure to the non-Christian world as defiling. But perhaps most
of the Christians stuck in the Christian Ghetto are there
unintentionally - they simply spend too much time with Christians, and
take in only Christian music, television and media.
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
J.D. Payne has done a study of house and simple churches, specifically
those that he calls “missional house churches.” Many interesting
tidbits are found in this study. For example…
Payne identifies four types of people who are typically involved in
house churches. I think looking at these categories of people can be
very informative and provoke some excellent conversations about our own
simple/house churches.
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