In my last post, we painted in broad strokes a picture of a church that is missing key foundational pieces in its development. With this post, we want to start filling in some color: just what has the church been missing over the last two millennia?
Here are some gaping holes we see in today’s church through [...]
It’s been said among those in our organic movement: if you want good answers, you need to ask good questions. In our journey out of inherited evangelical culture and conventional pastoral ministry, there were a slew of good questions with which God had us wrestle (for a fuller set of the questions we asked, you can click here.). [...]
Note well: it would be easy to conclude from this post title that I did not enjoy the last eight years at the church we planted, baylight church community. This is FAR from the truth. This post is in no way a slight to my spiritual family here. It is actually a testimony to their forbearance, [...]
I realize that is heresy to evangelical Christian culture. Post-reformation evangelicalism has always emphasized the pulpit in its architecture and the sermon in the Sunday event. Even to this day, the sermon takes the lion’s share of the Sunday event. Also, people today are subscribing to podcasts and listening to sermons online (as the [...]