Simply ChurchDear Church, Do you know how difficult it is to be a pastor in a traditional church? I do. I was one for over 25 years. Consider these statistics from an article called "Death by Ministry". Pastors Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their… Read More
In Alcoholics Anonymous, The 12 Steps are read out loud at every meeting. For those of us who are still in detox from programmatic Christianity, there is value in repeating what we have said before: the simple church revolution (reformation?) is not about doing conventional church in a home. It’s not “Honey, I shrunk the… Read More
"If you want to change society, then you must tell an alternative story" – Ivan Illich I just came across a new podcasting site created by Tim Pynes called Stories from the Revolution. It currently includes interviews with Jim Mellon, Tony Dale, Wolfgang Simson and Neil Cole.
This is the "Special Feature" from the new When You Come Together DVD available from House2House.
I've just switched the email subscription service from Bloglet to FeedBlitz. This should work much more consistantly. Most of you will have to do nothing in order for the change to take affect. You'll know that you're on the new list if you receive this update twice, once from Bloglet and once from the new… Read More
Seth Godin recently posted this: Listen to this… What’s the point of talking to a group? I’m serious. We spend a lot of time in presentations, or at the United Nations, or sending our kids to school. We have orientation sessions and keynote speeches and long-winded oratory on the floor the Senate. Why? One reason:… Read More
This post is from the Ransomed Heart Daily Email. The family is . . . like a little kingdom, and, like most other little kingdoms, is generally in a state of some thing resembling anarchy. (G. K. Chesterton) Chesterton could have been talking about a little fellowship (our true family, because it is the family… Read More
This post is from the Ransomed Heart Daily Email. Of course, small groups have become a part of the programming most churches offer their people. For the most part, they are disappointing and short-lived—by the very admission of those who try them. There are two reasons. One, you can’t just throw a random group of… Read More
This post is from the Ransomed Heart Daily Email. Where will you find the Four Streams? The Four Streams are something we learn, and grow into, and offer one another, within a small fellowship. We hear each other’s stories. We discover each other’s glories. We learn to walk with God together. We pray for each… Read More
This post is from the Ransomed Heart Daily Email. When he left Rivendell, Frodo didn’t head out with a thousand Elves. He had eight companions. Jesus didn’t march around backed by hundreds of followers, either. He had twelve men—knuckleheads, every last one of them, but they were a band of brothers. This is the way… Read More