Travis Agnew I read this blog today that I thought was very revealing. It is 10 ways to avoid building community at church. The first 5 are: 1. Keep conversations short. 2. Always sit in your “assigned” seat. 3. Avoid new people. 4. Come in late. 5. Leave immediately after the service (or early). If you want the whole article and the …
We are in the middle of a Life Focus series at North Side entitled “Invest and Invite” focusing on relational evangelism. I was reading a book by Thom Rainer called Surprising Insights from the Unchurched and have read some…uh…surprising insights from the unchurched. In the area of reaching out to the unchurched, I came across a staggering statistic: “Only one …
So we finished up the sermon series “7 Things to Do Before You Die” on Tuesday at Fusion with “Read the Bible from Cover to Cover” where we did a music/message approach to telling the one story of the Bible in one hour. OK, it was one hour and four minutes, I got unexpectedly emotional one time. Next week, we …
I have been reading a book on worship by A. W. Tozer lately and I came across a quote that really challenged me. He was talking about how consumer-oriented we tend to become concerning worship. If we like the songs or if the message really connected with us, we equate that with “good” worship. But worship is not an event. …
One reason why Submerge went so great was that it was about the Kingdom. There were churches there, but it was just one big family. No one was terratorial. No was defensive. We just all saw it like one big happy family. 230 people, over 9 churches together – just to go deeper in our relationship with Jesus. I love …
It’s about 1:11 in the morning, and we are starting to pack up for Submerge. It has been an amazing week and God has done some incredible things! I will tell you some more soon – but thank you for all those who have prayed.
I can’t wait to celebrate with the family tomorrow – HE GOT UP!!!
This week, in my new favorite show, 24, there was a great lesson in postmodernism. If you don’t know, postmodernism is the favorite pattern of thought in America today. Its basic tenet is that there is no absolute truth. Your truth is truth. Mine is truth. Even if they absolutely contradict, they are both true. Brilliant, huh? On 24, Doyle, …
Number 4 at Fusion tonight. You can see the notes here…
So, I’m searching the internet to get a taste of what other churches are doing around the globe, and I stumbled on to this church called Gateway Community Church in Virginia who did something crazy last October. They canceled services! But they canceled the services in order to serve. The whole church body got together that morning, not to sit …
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