The Church is the body of Christ. Not figuratively. Literally. The way you’ll treat the Church tomorrow is the way you treat Jesus. From Stephen Kneale at Church Matters: If Christ is unified to his people, then what one does to his people is what one is doing to Christ. How one treats his people …
Popular culture and social media has made failure into a status symbol, but usually presents failing as an egalitarian stepping stone to entail success. Almost like a rite of passage. David Zahl points out that this cultural tendency to gloss over failure as a stepping stone to success short-changes the suffering of those who fail, …
Sometimes I feel the effective Christian life is confined to one personality type. Or, at the very least, that it’s not fair that one personality type seems ideally suited for reaching out. Sammy Rhodes gives some relief with an observation that the Good News is embodied in a community of all types of people. One …
Stephanie Judd writes about aligning Christian service ministries with the personal narrative of individual Christians. The church is not a sausage factory. It’s a dynamic, diverse group of people that God has brought together in Christ. That’s what makes the church so amazing. But what this means is that to see people really fly as …
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