My friend, who is in the process of leaving a church he’s attended for 8 1/2 years, made this comment in a conversation Tuesday:
The biggest problem to me with that [church] model is that it keeps it’s members busy doing things to attract other people, and in the end the people doing all the work [...]
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14 Jun
13 Feb
swallowed by life
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For [...]
15 Jan
becoming real
“This is the true story, of seven twelve strangers diverse, young Bostonians, picked to live spend the MLK weekend in a house, work worship together and have their lives taped laid out bare, to find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting real. The Real World Boston Faith + Justice Network.”
No, [...]
9 Nov
preaching/living Jesus
Jesus is controversial. His birth was not safe. Mystery and controversy shrouded the earliest days of his life. His entire existence ran counter to the power structures of his day, and it continues to do the same today. His way is so radically different from the way of mainstream humanity. [...]
23 Oct
what if?
What if…
… Jesus and early Christians never could have imagined (or hoped) that being a Christian would become anything but being radically counter-cultural, persecuted (by the principalities and powers), marginalized, and yet altogether joy-filled and attractive (as a community)?
… There are those who are powerful and significant in God’s eyes â&emdash; and don’t even know [...]
13 Sep
the challenges of traditional church in my neighborhood
As we spend more and more time in our new Boston neighborhood — in people’s homes or chatting in the park — we become even more convicted that the modes of evangelism that “worked” in the Bible Belt are moot on our block. (I’m growing more and more convinced that modes of evangelism that “work” [...]
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