Tags: church

• curious recruitment,…

  In this season of seeking and searching out…… I was intrigued by this Pastoral leadership job description: direct quote coming up! The WOMB Life Coaching Center is a growing Church that started one year ago. In keeping with the original vision of the church, Pastor XX (a black pastor) is seeking a co-pastor (a white pastor) to work completely co-equally with to show forth a demonstration of unity to the Body of Christ. ps not actually called Pastor double-X!!!

• quoteable quote:- church health

  ” I wonder how much more effective our churches would be if we made the pastor’s spiritual health–not the pastor’s efficiency–our number one priority.” Philip Yancey

• contextless links

  The Tall-Skinny-Kiwi’s guide to attending church without embarassment! A Twitter-based Easter challenge for those who tweet! Great truth:- Generousity is what keeps the things I own from owning me. A funny dilemma that is surely worthy of eternally-pet-consideration?!! Faith journeys is a helpful partnership project worth a look…. Ouuuuuuuuch about this new face-representative….??! surely not?! Five Big Issues facing the western church, according to Tim Keller. Challenging but utterly realistic stuff….. and the Redeemer response: the priority of church to [...]

• Eugene Peterson on church

  “Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity.” Genius!! What a compelling (and complicated) invitation!! “So, why church? The short answer is because the Holy Spirit formed it to be a colony of heaven in the country of death” (p11-12). The church, Peterson says, is those people who practice the resurrection of Christ in the country of death. Sure, he admits, the church isn’t all it seems it should be but he makes this [...]

• it’s simple!

  The mission of the church is to love Jesus. Everything else is just strategy. How are you and I doing in this loving-Jesus business?

• quizzing question (18)

  Why do we allow church to be all the things we know it shouldn’t be?