With mere spirituality the Church has not much directly to do. . .
Christian faith is neither spirituality nor charity. Its revelation is the holiness in judgment of the spiritual and loving God. Love if only divine as it is holy; and spirituality is Christian only as it meets the conditions of Holy Love [...]
Category Archives: 2. Commitment to a cause
The Cross: PT Forsyth
9 April, 2006 – 10:04 PM
Does the Emerging church have a problem with evangelism?
3 April, 2006 – 1:34 PM
Sitting around with a group of leaders in the early days of the Emerging church. Talking about reinventing the church for the postmodern context etc.
This floors me: “You know we’re just not reaching postmoderns. Maybe it’s like reaching Muslims. We could spend a whole lifetime and hardly see any new believers.”
Shocked because I’m [...]
Babyboomer Unbelief
15 March, 2006 – 9:11 PM
Will the last Presbyterian please turn out the lights?
The Presbyterian Church USA is hemorrhaging.
According to the number crunchers at denominational headquarters, membership loss for the denomination in 2005 was estimated at sixty-five thousand, followed by an eighty-five thousand projected loss in 2006.
The projected 2006 loss would represent a single-year decline of 3.7 percent, the highest [...]
Are we ready?
11 March, 2006 – 3:10 AM
WesleyBlog asks: Are We Ready For Real Modern Day Circuit Riders?
We may pray that God would raise up a new generation of church planting movements. But would we be comfortable if he answered our request?
Would you have signed up to join the Methodist circuit riders (church planters) who conquered the US frontier over two centuries [...]
Wandaro of Ethiopia
23 February, 2006 – 9:44 AM
I will never give up my faith in Jesus Christ! I will gladly suffer for my Saviour.
Wandaro of Ethiopia
1919-1991
Arrested for his faith, flogged for three straight hours, and thrown into prison almost dead, Wandaro of Ethiopia (1919-1991) came out a year later to help lead his country’s fledgling church into enormous evangelistic growth. When missionaries [...]
Cartoon mocks Christ
7 February, 2006 – 3:16 AM
This crude graffiti cartoon from the early second century, may be the oldest depiction of Christ.
In the drawing we see Alexamenos bowing down before a crucified man with the head of a donkey.
The Greek caption reads “Alexamenos sebete theon” — Alexamenos worships his god.This early graffito (wall-scratching; singular of graffiti) was discovered in 1857 in [...]
2. Commitment to a cause
14 January, 2006 – 3:58 AM
Committed people make history.
The second characteristic of dynamic movements in mp3 format. Commitment to the cause.
Movements
Nothing new
23 September, 2005 – 7:14 PM
The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before.
They happen when someone takes radically something that was already there.
Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962)
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I’ll fight
16 April, 2005 – 10:08 PM
While women weep as they do now,
I’ll fight.
While little children go hungry as they do now,
I’ll fight.
While men go to prison in and out in and out,
I’ll fight.
While there yet remains one dark soul without the light of God,
I’ll fight. I’ll fight to the very end.
General William Booth
Salvation Army Founder
My sport in high school was [...]
Reappearing nuns
12 April, 2005 – 10:38 PM
Despite the devastation of the last thirty or more years (see “Disappearing nuns”), there are some signs of renewal and hope for religious orders. Those signs are evident among the newer orders that have remained true to their spiritual tradition and are still making the traditional demands of religious life. Those orders are successfully recruiting [...]
