Month: March 2014

My friends over at Newforms Resources have put together a wonderful video that uses a game format to describe the simple, powerful principles of disciple making movements.  This is a wonderfully precise and informative vid:  

(Re-posted from 2005): The Christian world, the entire Christian world, is permeated with a religious spirit.  It's in me, in others, in traditional churches, in house churches.  It is such a pervasive dysfunction that it's no wonder Jesus addressed it so forcefully. The religious spirit is not just "them," it's also "us."  We think, oh…

(Note this post is a rewrite of one I wrote in 2005). A friend passed along a sermon by Greg Boyd who was on an indefinite leave of absence from pastoring a large church.  He expresses his crisis of faith: My present crisis was precipitated precisely because the clearer I¹ve gotten about the profound significance…