"With the established church having negligible impact on the postmodern generation, and with the postmoderns writing off the church as unnecessary, a conciliatory voice is needed. Tim Morey may be that voice."
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thoughts on calling #2 – failure is necessary
If we are to live into our calling, failure is necessary. Often when failure comes (emphasis on when, not if) we see it as an aberration at best - a painful detour or distraction from our true calling. We often feel that our failures detract from the efficacy of God’s call on our life, and commonly they shake our sense of whether we have understood God’s call at all. At times we wonder if we have misheard God and need to move in another direction altogether.
thoughts on calling #1 – do what you are
Two streams of thought flowing here, causing me to wax theological…
uno – The men’s group I am part of is working through the issue of calling. Last week’s meeting was really rich, with Steve urging us not to shrink back from areas of God-instilled greatness in our lives.
dos – I am at this moment sitting in the basement of a church in Nashville as part of an assessment team for potential church planters. Upstairs are a bunch of amazing men and women whom we are helping discern God’s call on their lives. Humbling, holy work.
Thought of the day: Do what you are.
new music
Unlike some of my friends who are indie-rock-aholics I only dabble, but I’ve gotten hooked on the whole post-rock ethereal scene. Today Jonsi (the front man from Sigur Ros) releases a new album called Go. I heard an early release version and it’s awesome. Enjoy…
Finding God through atheism
Everything I know about evangelism I learned from Nacho Libre
New book review
Super blessed by a new review of Embodying Our Faith that posted this week. It’s great to read a review and think, “They totally got it!” Especially from a fellow church planter. Thanks to Nathan Creitz of ChurchETHOS for his generous words . . .
De-churched for different reasons
Our church has had its greatest impact among the “dechurched” - those who may or may not already be believers, have a church background, left, and are now (more often than not) pretty cautious and/or bitter toward all things church. Skye Jethani of Out of Ur has a really insightful post on this crowd that is worth reading.
Skye breaks this down further into those who are dechurched for relational reasons (“I’m not truly known here”), missional reasons (“the church isn’t impacting the world”), and tranformational reasons (“church people look nothing like Jesus”). All ring true in my experience. I would add to the list the church-leaders-burned-me, institutions-bug-me, the what-a-bunch-of-hypocrites, and what-does-any-of-this-have-to-do-with-my-life dechurched. If I had a dollar for every time I hear one of those…
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