Christmas Lunch…
“Where’s everyone?” My pastor asked as I was setting chairs and the tables in the social hall. I replied, “I do not know. They should be coming.” Yesterday was an unusual Saturday. My normal routine was to go to the Y, swim, then bike for a few hours. Instead, I found myself in my church’s […]
A life of outreach? Or an outreach life?
Sometimes I wonder what if I consider every day night as an outreach event. Going to the YMCA to do a few miles repeat. Outreach event. Going to work. Outreach event. Going to Moe’s to pick up a burrito. Outreach event. I think sometimes when we think about outreach, we have to spend a lot […]
What is a Church?
About to talk about what’s a church at this week’s fellowship. We were suppose to write two sentences about what we think church is. I wrote one line. A group of Spirit leaded people living and bringing Glory to God through obedience to Jesus’ teaching. I remembered A B Simpson, the founder of Christian and […]
Giving Thanks – Church 20th Anniversary
Next Sun, my church will be celebrating our 20 years anniversary. On the way back home tonight I was reflecting on things I am grateful and give praise for. I give thanks to: – for God working wonderfully in my church for 20 years. We started as a house church and with grace we grew […]
Would Jesus Twitter?
This is a post from Dave Gibbons in discussing about technology and Christianity. You can read it here. I like the idea of a church with thousands of doors. Here he is talking about that we can start an experience of a church online and offline. I love what the United Methodist Church denomination recently […]
If the family were a Church…
Picked this post from Roy McClung’s blog. We often think of church as a family. What if we think of family as a church…. Here’s one possible scenario: Two young men walked in the den where grandma was watching her “stories”. They shuffled their feet, made small talk, but finally got down to business. “Grandma, […]
Thoughts on church, people, authenticity
It seems the best thought takes time to develop…last night a brother dropped by and I was trying to express my ideas…it was muddle. Not clear. Here’s an email I sent to a brother earlier today: I was reading a blog a while back… (http://untilallhaveheard1.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/the-letters-to-the-corinthians-by-william-barclay/) It was talking about the order of a church and […]