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Tag Archives: emerging church
City Church and things changing in Bend
**Edit:I have made some changes to the following post and comments as I realize it is terribly bad form to begin naming churches in negative ways. I never want to slam churches and what they are trying to do. Please … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Friends, Ministry, Out and About in Bend, emerging church
Tagged bend, christianity, church, city church, emerging church
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Why I do what I do and why I like trees
Quote from Gurus, Ashrams and Christians – Vanyana “Individual Christians in Iran [or Bend] should not think of themselves as television antennae or sets, tuned to receive and to reproduce exactly what comes to them from the sending station abroad. … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Ministry, Out and About in Bend, Quotes
Tagged christianity, culture, emerging church, mission, Quotes, trees
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The Celtic Martyrs
In similar thought with my last post about martyrdom and whether emergents can be called martyrs, I have found the Celtic Christians’ (some of the first emerging Christians) perspective on martyrdom to be one of great interest and perhaps offering … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, emerging church
Tagged celtic, christianity, emerging church, martyr, martyrdom, thomas cahill
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Emerging Martyrs?
I really appreciate Ken Wytsma’s latest blog on martyrdom and how it fits into the world of following Jesus today. He writes of martyrs who suffer because they are doing what God wants them to do and those who suffer … Continue reading
Posted in Ministry, emerging church
Tagged christianity, conversation, emerging church, martyr, martyrdom
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Mark Scandrette on priorities of Jesus followers
From Soul Graffiti We often spend so much time reacting to religious traditions or a religious culture that we have little energy left to cultivate a proactive spiritual path. Even among “believing” people, there is often more critique and conversation … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Quotes, emerging church
Tagged deconstruction, emerging church, Jesus, mark scandrette, spirituality
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