Month: February 2014

I have likely done Donald a mis-service by only sharing my favorite quotes from a long post he wrote here which is all good and worth reading in its entirety. Nevertheless, here are a few of those 'sound bites' that stood out to me from "Why I Don't Go To Church Very Often:" I’d say half of…

"Between the traditional and the new, or between order and adventure, there is no real opposition; and what we call tradition today is a knit work of centuries of adventure." – Jorge Luis Borges quoted at ProdigalKiwi. Interesting quote.  It helps put some things into perspective.  If you are reading this blog you are probably…

I received the following email from Mike Lyons several years ago that bears repeating: I have made a promise to myself. I will stop inviting people to my church. Hear me out now. I spent nearly a decade with my well paid job in the church trying to get people to come to church. We…

I have found that the key to our gatherings is to learn to listen to the Holy Spirit– all of us. In my past life, as a pastor of a traditional church, I felt the responsibility to hear what God is saying and to pass that word along to "the people."  Of course, God's word is always…