12 shocking facts about the church
This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”
the total cost of Christian outreach averages $330,000 for each and every newly baptised person.
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Darryl Dash
I'm a grateful husband, father, oupa, and pastor of Grace Fellowship Church East Toronto. I love learning, writing, and encouraging. I'm on a lifelong quest to become a humble, gracious old man.
Now a skiing family
Christina went skiing with her school for a week in January. Ever since then, she’s been begging us to hit the slopes together. We finally did yesterday at the Mansfield Ski Club
What is the gospel? Another response
Another blog attempts to answer this question, and includes this quote from Darrell Guder:
In the exploration of the missiological implications of reductionism, I have stressed that the reduction of the gospel to
Beyond self-help chatter
David Neff describes what happens when preachers forget to connect a text to the bigger story and instead trivialize the text, as he discovered while visiting a church on vacation:
The Old Testament
Defending my thesis
This blog began last year as I was writing my D.Min. thesis for Gordon-Conwell on the subject of theocentric preaching. This Friday, I'm in Boston to defend the thesis.