Month: May 2008

One of the unintended consequences of conventional churches and their focus to grow is the subtle, and sometimes not-so-subtle, message that unreached people are targets that need to be “reached” and “brought in.” I heard the atheist, Matt Caspar (Jim and Caspar Go to Church), speak at a conference and describe how he asked his new…

The following is from Kent Smith (emailed to me some time back by Mike Steele) on "A Lifestyle of Spirit-Led Leadership."  Kent is a missions professor at Abilene Christian University and has been involved in training leaders of simple churches: The great soccer player Pele was quoted saying, "I have just three moves . .…

Hugh Halter and Matt Smay have written an interesting book on "Creating Incarnational Community."  It's a good read.  Following is not a book review, rather just some notes (and quotes) that I wrote after reading it: Author Hugh Halter tells this story: As I’m sitting at a Starbucks in the final week of editing this book, I…