The early Church treated worship as essential for living faithfully. So why do so many contemporary Christians treat it like it’s optional? What are we pastors doing that reinforces this mentality?
Tag: Worship
On Worship, Again.
There is a mentality among American Christians (of just about every variety) that I find myself constantly trying to re-educate people about – with varying degrees of success. It all springs from the the combination of the language we use to describe worship being combined with the consumer mentality of the modern West. It’s a…
I’m Back
Today is my first day back from vacation. I’ve connected with some folks and got some processes underway for Annual Session in September, so it’s been a productive day so far. I have to say though, I despise mail. I spent nearly an hour going over the junk that gets sent to me. 90% ended…
The Old Old Story
I just finished reading Robert Webber’s Worship Old and New, and I’m better for. Worship Old and New was first published in 1982 and revised in 1994 – in many ways it acts a the forerunner of Webber’s execellent Ancient-Future series of books. For pastors or other church leaders who want to expose their congregants…
Oh Communion, Communion, Where Art Thou?
I don’t want to make lite of the whole Swine Flu thing. The CDC can’t be blamed for handling the situation the way that they are. It’s not their fault that a potentially dangerous strain of flu has sprung up at the same time news media seems to be dropping like flies. The papers and…
A Wonderful Image
If you viewed the slide-show from the retreat you’ve already seen these images, but I wanted to put them together in sequence because I find them wonderfully provoking. As I progressed out of Evangelicalism™ one of the things I found myself coming back to again and again was the statment, “There is a difference between…
