Month: May 2004
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Beginning Blogging
Bill Hays wrote me this email: Hey Roger, Just popping in to say hi and ask for some advice on beginning blogging. I know nothing about it and had to look it up in a dictionary. I have really enjoyed yours and the idea of sharing thoughts with others is enticing. Not sure how much…
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Why Change Church?
Here’s a repeat from a post dated Feb. 18– just wanted to share it again: Why Change Church? Alan Creech seeks to answer the important question, “why we do church a different way.” His response is this: We have looked and we have seen the deep lack of real transformation going on in the Body…
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Amos on Religion
From Rachelle over at Truth Seeker– Things I read in the Bible today that I swear to God were not in there before Eugene Peterson learned how to type: “I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretntious slogans…
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Article From a Church Planter
Here is an article from Jeff Gilbertson, a YWAM church planter in Central Asia, that was passed along to me by John White: Dear Saints, One of the best descriptions we can find of an early church “gathering” is found in Acts 20:7,11: “And on the first day of the week, when we gathered to…
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Heart Driven Worship
We don’t downplay music in our gatherings but we have tried to re-learn worship as being first about a lifestyle and secondly about a heart that is longing for God. We call this heart-driven worship. We developed this term out of the conviction that most worship, as in “times of worship,” is music driven. In…
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The Pastor System
I just couldn’t resist re-quoting this quote as posted at WaterCarriers on the pastor system: “There is nothing wrong about the pastor system, so far as I can see, except that it is not in the New Testament. Anything else that is not in the New Testament is as bad as the pastor, or the…
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Blogging Friends
One of the side benefits of taking up blogging has been the unexpected joy of making new friends. After posting the last entry about Jim Petersen’s book, The Insider, I received this email from a reader in Colorado: Hey Roger, If you don’t have a copy of Jim’s book, I’d be happy to mail one…