An Emerging Church of Christ? Part 3

Part 1 Part 2 Here’s the flip side of the coin: Church of Christ Pride Our rigorous “back to the Bible” efforts turned Christianity into more of a head-trip than a journey with Jesus. Christianity as head-trip focuses on reading the Bible in such a way as to get everything just right: the who, what, […]

An Emerging Church of Christ? Part 2

Part One One side of the coin says: Churches of Christ are positioned to do well in the emerging culture. We never really jumped on the seeker-service bandwagon so we don’t have to unlearn worship as production rather than participation. Acapella worship invites participation. It is simple and portable. It works with groups of all […]

An Emerging Church of Christ?

Sometimes I wonder how my tribe (Churches of Christ) will fare in the years to come. We came to be in the modern era. We are the product of modern assumptions. We believed that we could objectively read the Bible and do what it said. We believed that all anyone needed was a little common […]

Garnett

Now that its official I can blog about it. Last week I was offered and I accepted the position of preaching minister at the Garnett Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is the potential ministry opportunity Ive written about several times in the past. Its taken several months for both of us to complete our due […]