Church

Lifeshapes

I’ve spent the past two days listening to Mike Breen and Mal Calladine teaching Lifeshapes. To be honest, I wasn’t excited by Lifeshapes when I first heard about it. It doesn’

Interview with Scot McKnight

Stephen Shields interviews Scot McKnight. The interview covers what Scot thinks the larger evangelical world can learn from emergers, and also his biggest fear for the emerging movement (that they lose evangelism by

Emerging craziness

My brother David, who is somewhat of a character, was being interviewed by a Bible college student about his family for some project. When he came to me, he told her that I

Blogging scholars

I heard Darrell Bock speak at Heritage Theological Seminary today. Darrell (can I call you Darrell?) is an excellent New Testament scholar, and also very personable and media savvy. Who can fault a

Where in the world is the church?

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” An article from 1982 comparing the church as a field vs. church as a force: The goals of the church-as-a-field are