Month: November 2011
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How to Start a Home Church: The Art of Risk
Have we lost the art of risk when it comes to our faith? Are we settling for play-it-safe, cookie-cutter religion that has no life, teeth, focus, or power to it? I know risk and faith can be used by irresponsible people to do irresponsible things. Quitting a job, for example, because “God told me to.” …
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Proselytizing vs Inviting People to Follow Jesus
Religion asks members to proselytize people to that religion; Jesus asks people to repent and follow Him. I have done much of the former: inviting people to a religion. Here is the way it worked: Explain the basic precepts of the religion: Jesus died on the cross to forgive your sins and give you eternal…