Thoughts on John Wesley, UMC, life, faith, and anything else!
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Week One Almost Done…
I'm still processing everything I've learned this week. The class was on Biblical Interpretation and it was very good. Apparently historical criticism has moved down a notch or two on the biblical interpretation scale. The approach that was taught was a heuristic approach. The methodology is to read, re-read, re-read and read again while generating…
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ABCs of success
One of the problems I have with the church growth movement is that it adopted methods with the assumption that methods are value neutral. This is false: some methods by their very nature distort the message. Focusing on method we bought uncritically into worldly assumptions about how the world works. Most insidious of these…
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Beginning Doctoral Studies
This Friday I head to Wilmore, KY to begin my doctoral studies. I’m looking forward to it, but still apprehensive. I do feel led of God to begin this journey, while knowing how subjective ‘leadings’ can be. I plan to continue updating this site with progress, thoughts, etc. I realize that I’m not going to…
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Missional Church
Missional Church – LifeWiki Ah….Now this is more like it. A pretty good start on the definition of a missional church. Now…how does one transform from a from a traditional 100+ denominational church into a missional church?
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Real Grace Ministry
Helping “the poor” This has been on my mind and there is much rattling around regarding issues of poverty in America and what can be done. Perhaps I first need to make something clear. Poverty in America is of a different degree than poverty in the rest of the world. It seems that our lifestyle…
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On Humility
If there is good in you, see more good in others, so that you may remain humble. It does no harm to esteem yourself less than anyone else, but it is very harmful to think yourself better than even one. The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy…