Nothing infuriates me more than trying to use the Book of Acts to teach people how to live, only to run into some footsoldier of the descriptive-prescriptive battle. These folks love to put the kibosh on one mention after another of how the early Church functioned, particularly when someone asks why today’s Church isn’t functioning [...]
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Also posted in Boldness, Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Community, Counterculture, Dying to Self, Faith, Humility, Love, Maturity, Obedience, Simplicity
Tagged Acts, Assembly, Belief, Book of Acts, Church Meeting, Contemporary Church, Description, Descriptive, Early Church, Hardheartedness, Idolatry, Modern Church, Practice, Praxis, Prescription, Prescriptive, Unbelief
Without fail, the Lord provides a burden for me each year that I have typically shared here. Over the last few months, the one aspect of our walk with Christ that has been most apparent and problematic has been the way we American Christians practice community—or fail to practice it, as the case more often [...]
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Also posted in Announcements, Boldness, Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Community, Counterculture, Dying to Self, Hospitality, Leadership, Love, Maturity, Simplicity
Tagged 2012, Brotherhood, Church Issues, Community, Fellowship, Gathering, Selflessness
When I was a younger Christian, I heard a great deal about the “God-shaped hole” that existed in each of us. Only God could fill that hole. Left unfilled, the hole drove people to despair as they tried to fill it with one inappropriate plug after another. Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, riches, power, fame…nothing [...]
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Also posted in Christianity in North America, Church Issues, Counterculture, Discernment, Dying to Self, Holiness, Humility, Maturity, Obedience, Oddities, Relevance, Simplicity
Tagged Boredom, Despair, Ennui, God-Shaped Hole, Self-Medication, Substitutes, Thirst for God
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