"When we take our gaze off the celebrity pastors (practical dramatists) and the ministry pundits (theoretical dramatists) and we fix our eyes once again on Jesus, we’ll discover a spiritual leader with the wisdom to focus on the only drama that really matters. Jesus lived and served from a soul at one with the Father and an identity secure in his love. From this inner place he drew the strength to do might works (drama [...]
Phelps Apologizes for Marijuana Pipe Photo - NYTimes.com I have hear it said "Your gifts or talent won't take you where your character won't support you." In the world we have a tendency to worship the gifts and talent of people like Michael Phelps. Then we are greatly disappointed when they fail us. Well, actually we do it in the church too. We spiritualize it and call it anointing ; giving credit to man what is [...]
Brace yourself. I am haunted by what you are about to read. So I don't take away from these words I will not say anything else except, please excuse my lack in poetic structure. I copied this by ear. The words are correct but may not be written out like it should as a poem. When I became a Christian I said "Lord now fill me in; tell me what I'll suffer in this [...]
In a recent interview by Jamie Aprin-Ricci with missiologist Michael Frost, Michael shared the following thoughts: "...our christology should lead to our missiology which in turn will lead to our ecclesiology. In other words, the way we understand the gospels and the character of God revealed to us in Jesus will affect our way of thinking about our mission in the world. If we get our christology right, it will lead to a right missiology. [...]
Where did God send you today? In our attempt to find out what God wants us to do and in our churches looking to find a unique mission statement to follow, have we missed the simplicity of Missio Dei? This is an incredible video of Micheal Frost - missiologist at the Prebyterian Global Fellowship Conference in Houston, Texas. When you have 52 minutes to spare this is a must see. If you cannot watch the [...]