2,000th post: Sympathy for church leavers
I’ve been thinking recently about church leavers. A few years ago, I came to understand why some have left the church. As Reggie McNeal says, some leave not to abandon their faith,
Gone for a day
It’s been quite a year so far. It’s been good – my thesis is mostly done, we’re tackling some challenges (long overdue) in ministry, I work with a great team – but
Dallas Willard: Don’t make outreach a primary goal
Common wisdom says that inwardly focused churches need to focus on outreach in order to change. Dallas Willard challenges this wisdom in Renovation of the Heart:
It is, I gently suggest, a serious
Bored with God?
This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”
From A.W. Tozer:
It is now common practice in most evangelical churches to offer the people, especially the young people, a maximum of
Avoiding the homiletical hermeneutic
From Expository Thoughts (which quotes from a chapter in Giving the Sense by Daniel I. Block):
…Block warns against the primary pitfall facing preachers, missing the true meaning of the passage by approaching