In Sydney for two days to train coaches of church planters. Looking forward to getting home. Got back to the room from my early morning walk. Told Grant, my room-mate, “Hey a new day and we’re alive. Let’s give thanks to God and make the best of this day.” Sat down at the computer and [...]
Category Archives: 2. Commitment to a cause
Heart of a founder: Rick
18 April, 2006 – 11:08 AM
I’m trying to eliminate paper from my life. But when this letter arrived four years ago I carefully preserved it. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the sort of people who make great founders of movements. I think this letter from Rick reveals some of what it takes to be a great founder. He’s [...]
The day God died
11 April, 2006 – 6:06 AM
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent [...]
The Cross: PT Forsyth
9 April, 2006 – 10:04 PM
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 in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
