A.D.: Did your church buy the Roma Downey kit?

As NBC prepares to launch a new miniseries, “A.D.”, churches are being marketed to. Hard. It’ll be an easy sell for many, as this series is very entertaining and visually beautiful. “Millions will be watching, including people in Your Church,” advertises uber-popular Outreach.com, urging pastors to “plan a 12 week Continue Reading

The Missional Church: Combining the Great Commission with Unbiblical Ideas

Many churches throw about the word “Missional.” Seeker churches use it, and so do other denominational churches. But what does that mean? Of course our mission should be the Great Commission, but in the modern church that just isn’t good enough.  And of course it is redundant. It’s like saying, Continue Reading

Emergent Church

Emergent Church…aka Emerging and sometimes Emergence Religious leadership must end its intellectual and imaginative failure to think through what it is doing in the light of the new emerging cosmology, which is hospitable to spirit-matter theories and mindbody experiences. ~ Leonard Sweet The Emergent/Emerging Church movement is heading towards a Continue Reading