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

The system we’ve put together

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” From Leadership Blog: Christian leaders have to admit this is the system we have put together. We can't build churches that advertise