Pastors, repentance, and humility
I’m really enjoying The Heart of a Servant Leader by Jack Miller. Lots of stuff that’s not the standard fare for pastors today, like this brutally honest quote about pastors, repentance,
Church
A wrong (or at least insufficient) solution
I’ve been blogging about Viola and Barna’s new book Pagan Christianity. So far we’ve covered the first two what I’ve listed as the four assertions of the book:
* The
Pagan practices
Yesterday I mentioned the argument at the core of the new Barna and Viola book Pagan Christianity. Most of the book is about the following main point:
The origin of many of our
Pagan Christianity
“I can’t believe this book is getting published by a big-time publisher,” writes blogger Brant Hansen. “This is going to be interesting…This book is going to honk people off.”
The book
Is there a right kind of church?
Without thinking too hard, I can come up with five kinds of churches:
* New churches that follow traditional models
* Older, established churches
* New, non-traditional churches
* Older, non-traditional churches
* Organic churches with little structure