In this short clip, Alan Hirsch discusses the difference between the church as communitas, not community. A communitas is a church steeped and driven by mission, not ministry. As a result, it isn’t afraid to take risks as it moves towards the future with an honest sense of adventure and creativity; qualities that often don’t […]

I originally thought about making specific comments on this video, but decided against it. Why? Alan says it all. I absolutely love this short clip. Watch, share and chat about it with family, friends and your church. Insightful, helpful, honest and inspiring.

I’ve been thinking about this theme again lately. When we replace the statement ‘Jesus is Lord’ (which happens to be one of the earliest Christian creeds) with the statement ‘Jesus is Savior’, it fundamentally changes the way we read, understand and live out the gospel. Echoing ideas from an earlier blog on the gospel of […]

“At its very heart, Christianity is a Jesus movement, one that seeks to consistently embody the life, spirituality, and mission of its Founder. “Jesus is Lord” is about our becoming like Jesus our Lord and Founder. This confession lies at the epicenter of the church’s task. In order to recover the ethos of authentic Christianity, […]

Here is a provocative statement worthy of repetition. “Jesus didn’t choose ‘personal relationship with God’ but instead he chose the term kingdom.” (Scot McKnight, One.Life, pg 34). That is, He was more concerned with societies and communities where God’s will would flow out to the nations, than with creating a new kind of personal spirituality […]

Hey Everyone! Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to those of you who took the time to stop by the blog, read an article or two, make a comment and pass it along! October has been the best month to date relative to the number of overall views! Reactions have been, for the […]

I want to begin by asking each of us to reflect on this simple question – what is a Christian? If we were in a position where someone asked us to provide a definition of what it means to be a Christian, what would we say? What words, phrases, and images would we reference in […]

‘We know where God is, we do not know where he is not.’ What a liberating and informing statement about God’s nature and activity in the world. And yet, so many have interpreted this presence in abstract ways, detaching God from his creation and defining him in ways that do not correspond to the story […]