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I remember reading about this in Neil Cole’s life-changing book, Organic Church, four years ago. I had spent my 20′s and 30′s in training for and doing ministry FOR Jesus. And some great things happened, don’t get me wrong. But when I read John 11:11-13 – 11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father [...] I have not posted for a while as I’ve been recently tending to areas in my life that I need to grow in. It’s been a time of self-examination. And in this time, I’ve realized that I have much to learn still about life in Christ and its relationship to apostolic mission. In particular, [...] Moving is a pain in the derriere. Every time we move, regardless of whether it’s just across the park or across states, it takes months out of my life. In our latest move from the rich suburbs of the Silicon Valley to the small confines of a depressed mining town, once again I grieve months of [...] So today marks the second Sunday where I wasn’t “going to,” “doing” or “running” church [as we know it] since we left pastoral ministry in the Bay area and moved to Arizona, and it’s a weird feeling. Last Sunday morning, I hung out at a cafe with Dezi and Bryce , talked about pioneer journey emotions, confessed [...] Lately, the Lord has been teaching us the foolishness in clinging to methods and strategy that worked in the past and in searching for the “silver bullet” that, when properly discovered and employed, will vanquish any foe. Here is some great perspective along those lines from a mentor of mine in seminary, Marty Schoenleber: January 02 One of my spiritual fathers was recently teaching me about the importance of severe self-examination in spiritual development. He soon came to know that I am WAY too versed in the art of severe self-examination, emphasis on “severe.” I have a history of being a brow-beater. I don’t know who coined that phrase, but it [...] So after 8 years in church planting and pastoring the church we planted, we announced last Sunday that we are moving on in roughly half a year’s time to the next part of the journey God has for us. Here is the text of what I shared with our baylight family. It’s been an anxious and unsettling [...] One of the most important yet little known people in the history of modern movements is Count Nikolaus Ludwig Von Zinzendorf, founding leader of the Moravians and their German community called Herrnhut. Leslie and I just finished a nice little book called, The Lord of the Ring, by Phil Anderson that details the life and legacy of [...] I first got my ear bent to this idea when in conversation with my friend, Dezi B@ker (Mr. Organic Spirituality himself). But as I have pondered this more in my preparation for what I want to share with some Kenyan refugees this week, I think there is something deeply profound and directional in there. I am not [...] |
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