Over in facebook I saw the question: “What advice to you offer for starting a simple church movement from scratch?”
I responded there, but wanted to post it here as well:
I say, “beware the yeast of church growth ambitions.” It’s a slippery slope from those passions to the “can do” business structures we are [...]
Archive for January, 2009
entrepreneurial energy
Posted in being the church, church businesses, living by the spirit, relationships on January 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
simple church start
Posted in being the church, church businesses, living by the spirit, relationships on January 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’d like to say a word of encouragement to those who are wanting to gather with others who are simply wanting to be the church that follows Jesus, but your thinking “I don’t know anyone doing that around here.” A dozen years ago we were in the same boat. We were going around to various [...]
drafting behind Jesus (aka, living by his Spirit)
Posted in being the church, living by the spirit on January 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For some reason it has come to my awareness several times lately how different life is in the church when we are truly “drafting” behind Jesus. There’s the sense that so many details of life are left to him, and we deal only with what he lets come our way. And he knows what we’re [...]
