June 2010
3 posts
The Great White Hope is dead.
Churches in our area that continue to focus primarily on reaching white people are headed for decline in the coming years. In my not so humble opinion, any church who has the white community in San Joaquin County as its primary evangelism target is making a huge mistake, one that I believe will backfire big time in the long run. There are a couple of reasons I make these statements with some...
Commute Groups
I was thinking about the early church worship practices yesterday and got a seed of an idea that I think is kinda cool.
The early church would meet every day early in the morning in secret locations. They’d pray for each other, take communion, and commit to each other to live out the Christian ideals in their work that day. Their meetings were short, private affairs that they did not...
Not my own
I heard a Bible teacher once state that he didn’t believe there is a ‘will of God’ for every person. He said he believed the Bible teaches that as long as you stay within the bounds of Biblical teaching that God’s providence for us is that we do whatever we want and we have his blessing. He stated that in thirty years of ministry that he’d never prayed about a single ministry decision. He seemed...