Monthly Archives: March 2009

Purpose—And Why Christian Men Don’t Always Live Theirs

At a small group meeting this weekend, we watched a video on bettering one’s marriage. One of the comments the speaker made concerned finding one’s purpose in God, and that this purpose comes from no one else. And this bothers me. Not because it’s not true, but because one of the most common discussions I [...]

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The Ingredient Needed for a Genuine Church

We’ve had an interesting conversation here this week about church planting. A few other blogs have picked up the conversation and continued it. I felt I had a couple more things to say, both as clarification and expansion. Clarification, first. I am very much in favor of planting churches. It’s part of the life of [...]

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Why I Don’t Understand Church Planting…

I once visited a city in Illinois that had an intersection of two large roads that formed four corners and had a megachurch hunkered down on each corner. Four cathedral-sized church buildings. Four different denominations. Four XXXL parking lots. I didn’t understand then, and I still don’t. What constitutes church planting in the United States [...]

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