Justin Wainscott provides this quote from C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis, from Letters to Malcolm, on novelty in worship and the need for permanence and uniformity: It looks as if they [Anglican clergymen] believed people can be lured to go to church by incessant brightenings, lightenings, lengthenings, abridgements, simplifications, and complications of the service. And it …
Mikey Lynch commences online ruminations about his recent trip to the US. In this post he deals with a largely ignored, but substantial, dynamic in church planting: transfer growth. We never say it is. The books rarely talk about it explicitly, the hero-story of church planters is always ‘We arrived, just the two of us, …
Ray Ortlund: J. I. Packer, writing in God in our Midst (Ann Arbor, 1987), pages 24-35, proposes that, among the variety of God’s ways, five constants appear in all biblical revivals: 1. Awareness of God’s presence: “The first and fundamental feature in renewal is the sense that God has drawn awesomely near in his holiness, …
One of our members thought I’d find this clip from New Life Digest ’93 amusing. Quite. A story found in a corner of a church bulletin: Three small boys were bragging about their fathers. The first boy said: ‘My dad writes a few short lines on a piece of paper, calls it a poem, and …
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