Posted in Bible Teaching, Doctrine / Theology, Misc Books, Misc Topics, The Living Church, tagged Calvary Chapel, church growth, Church Planting, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, Evangelism, John Stott, missional, Modernism, Postmodernism, Purpose Driven, The Living Church on July 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Every good book describing a healthy church covers at least Acts 2:42-47 and this one is no different.
Here in Chapter 1 John Stott covers what he calls the essential marks of a living church hence the title Essentials.
On the outset he describes a 3 – fold commitment.
We are committed to the church
We are committed to [...]
Posted in Misc Books, Misc Topics, The Living Church, tagged Calvary Chapel, church growth, Church Planting, Emergent Church, Emerging Christianity, Evangelism, John Stott, missional, Modernism, Postmodernism, Purpose Driven, The Living Church on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For my birthday I received a gift card to a local Christian Bookstore so I went and picked out a few books. The Living Church: Convictions of a Lifelong Pastor by John Stott (IVP, 2007) seemed like a good buy.
I respect John Stott as a doctrinally sound thinker enough to want to hear (read) what [...]
Posted in Bible Teaching, Doctrine / Theology, Misc Books, Misc Topics, tagged Bible Teaching, Codex-Sinaiticus on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this on the news this morning – the oldest known compiled Bible over 1600 years old. For you scholarly types this is a pretty cool website with the image of the text with translation.
The key reminder is to remember that there are older fragments and manuscripts that well pre-date the Codex-Sinaiticus. The liberal [...]
Posted in Bible Teaching, Misc Books, Misc Topics, tagged Calvary Chapel, Christianity, church growth, community, Emergent Church, incarnational, missional, postmodern, Robert Lewis, The Church of Irresistable Influence on October 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Continuing in part one of the book, Lewis furthers his assessment that church leaders are often overwhelmed at the size of this chasm detailed in the previous post. Because of that some pastors and lay leaders will in a sense see the task as impossible and running back to what Lewis calls ‘fallback methodology” as [...]
Posted in Misc Books, Misc Topics, tagged Christianity, church growth, community, Emergent Church, incarnational, missional, postmodern, Robert Lewis, The Church of Irresistable Influence on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have a book that was given to me by someone at a garage sale called The Church of Irresistible Influence by Robert Lewis with Rob Wilkins. The book utilizes bridge building stories to discuss bridging this Great Chasm that spans between the church and the community around the church. Leveraging stories of physical chasms [...]
