One of the problems of being around churches, and in being someone who tries very hard to see the good in people is the way that bad things happen because of completely good and honourable intentions. Dealing with teenagers (but also in the wider world), there are some very fragile self-esteems involved, and it doesn’t [...]
On our first foray into some proper discussion on Amateur Theology, we threw around the idea of at what point of theological disagreement should you leave a church, which prompted Ron (my father) to tell his story:
Back in what seems like an earlier life, my young family and I were in a church in a [...]
Prompted by my LifeGroup: what does the language of a corporate experience of God look like?
I think it’s quite a poorly developed area of communication for us.
In my experience, when we talk about what God’s doing, we talk about it from a first-person perspective: “something I’ve learned this week…”, “God told me…”, “my experience this [...]
As someone who has been interested in the “emerging conversation”, and believe that there is a lot wrong with the model of institutional church we find in western society, I’ve been forced to reconsider whether or not “going to church” as an activity is still something I ought to be doing. It’s been important for [...]
From the always-controversial Mark Driscoll:
“The reason they (young men) don’t go to most churches is because they could take the pastor and can’t respect a guy in a lemon-yellow sweater, sipping decaf and talking about his feelings.”
(The Resurgence - The Right Hand of Fellowship, Hat tip to planet telex)
Discuss.