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,
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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
James Grier on preaching in a postmodern culture
Spent the day at Heritage Seminary yesterday listening to James Grier talk about “Preaching in a Postmodern Culture”. This is a subject that could go horribly wrong if it fell into the wrong
Redemptively Discontent
My latest column at Christian Week:
A funny thing happened a few years ago. I always assumed that people who complain about church have a bad attitude. One day, I began to listen
Rick McKinley: A beautiful and messy kingdom.
From Leadership Blog, a lab session with Rick McKinley at Catalyst:
“As pastors, we are tempted to build the church,” he said. “So we send out postcards to targeted Zip codes and we