Go and read the explanations of what Ron Edmondson calls Ten Dangerous Church Paradigms “This is more my church than yours” – “We’ve never done it that way before” – “The pastor needs to do it” – “That’s for the big churches” – “That’s for the small churches” – “My comfort level for change is …
This illo turned up on OMF’s Facebook feed yesterday.
Or, in other words, our understanding of what the church is will help us know the what and the why of our actions when the church gathers. From Zac Hicks: Allowing ecclesiology to inform doxology really does cut through a lot of “fat” of what worship is all about at its core. When we gather …
The church’s corporate life is its most profound witness of the Gospel. From Trevin Wax: The Great Commission was given to a community. Western readers have tended to read the Great Commission passages (especially Luke 24 and Matthew 28) in light of the autonomous individual. We interpret the commissioning scenes as tasks assigned to individual …
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