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I gave up reading books on leadership ages ago.  But… I made a new friend who is studying missions at Azusa and reading a book for a course there that he assured me would be interesting: Leadership and the New Science.  He was right.  This is not even close to your typical "develop your leadership"…

This is a blog about "church," so-to-speak, but maybe we miss the mark a bit if we don’t keep putting the focus back on the One who precedes the church and everything else.  The church is, no doubt, meant to be a much more radical movement than we have understood it to be.  How much…

We westerners tend to think of ourselves as independent people who are learning to live fully our God-given life and potential.  But Kirshenbaum (Finding The True Meaning Of The Events In Our Lives) challenges this: I think people today have trouble being who they really are because as social creatures we live in a hierarchical…

It took Time magazine several months to publish an article they have been working on regarding house churches.  Their reporters were hanging out at the Denver House Church Conference last September!  But… the article (quite well done) just came out in the recent issue with the headline: "There’s No Pulpit Like Home" and the subheading:…

Following are some quotes from Neil Cole’s book entitled "Organic Church" thanks to Steve who made the quotes accessible: On Tranformation: Church attendance, however, is not the barometer of how Christianity is doing. Ultimately, transformation is the product of the Gospel. It is not enough to fill our churches; we must transform our world. Society…

Harold Behr shares some thoughts on building relational bridges: “Listening” Many people are looking for an ear that will listen.   The do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.   But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God…

Dan Kimball provides an excellent diagram of a typical reality: the longer we are Christians the fewer non-Christians we are around: Kimball says: "The irony is that we are on a mission for Jesus, but the more older and mature we become as Christians (and hopefully wiser), the less non-Christians then get to see and…

In case you have not seen some of the reaction to George Barna’s book, Revolution, here is a sampling.  Written by Charisma Magazine editor Lee Grady in the January edition: The well-known Christian researcher has gone too far this time: He’s advocating the demise of the local church… The tempered sociologist has now become something…

"What is house church? At its most basic and intimate level, house church is the pursuit of God in the company of friends who are learning to dance . . . with God and with one another." This quote is by Maurice Smith and comes to me via John White.  If you haven’t seen the…

Frank Doiron, in a previous comment, has challenged us to actually get out of our comfort zones and step out into living kingdom, incarnational lives. He quotes Alan Roxburgh who wrote: “We are in a moment when the deconstruction and critique of existing maps needs to be wedded to a company of people willing to…