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Tweet I’ve invited several people to write “guest blog posts” for this blog. There are several reasons for this: 1) To offer different perspectives. 2) To generate even more discussion and conversation between blogs. 3) To introduce other bloggers to my readers. (If you are interested in writing a guest blog post, please contact me at aknox[at]sebts[dot]com.) Today’s post was written by Dan from “The Ekklesia in South...

Tweet Keith at “subversive1” is writing a series discussing some of the problems (real and perceived) of organic church. (Now, from the beginning, we must admit that all organic churches are different, so it’s difficult to write this kind of series.) The latest post is called “Invisible: Organic Church.” This is what Keith says in introducing this weakness: In our discussion we reflected on the fact that h...

Tweet As I’ve mentioned previously, our church is currently studying Acts together. Last Sunday, we worked our way through most of Acts 2. Next Sunday, we’re planning to finish that chapter. Of course, Acts 2 includes this amazing summary of the new life that those first believers shared in Christ: And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And awe c...

Tweet There are many different kinds of families, and none of them are perfect. But, it seems that almost everyone knows how families should treat one another. When we read Scripture about the church, we find that we should also live as family with one another – not that dysfunctional kind of family, but a loving, caring, serving kind of family. Eric at “A Pilgrim’s Progress” recently talked about this in his po...

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give another human being is simply a place to belong. We need that place. That place will… guide us, care for us, confront us, shape us, console us. As long as you have breath you will search for a place to belong. As long as you can take one more step you’ve been designed to move towards this powerful, life altering, place. What role does community play in your life these days? ...

TweetShareThis post is the first of a two-part series on the relationship between agreement and unity, disagreement and disunity. In this post, I want to point out that disagreement is not disunity, and thus (in the positive sense) unity does not require uniformity. Let’s start with a statement that, hopefully, everyone reading this will agree with: disunity is a major problem among the church. The church is splintered in its expression in ...

TweetShareThere have been some excellent blog posts recently. So many, in fact, that I have not been able to link to all of them. So, in this post, I’m going to link to three posts that I thought were outstanding. First, Dan at “The Ekklesia in Southern Maine” writes about the “Dangers of Expository Preaching.” Dan is concerned that labels such as “expository preaching” may encourage people to “drop...

TweetShareLast October, we finished a long study of the book of Genesis. For the last five months or so, we’ve been doing some topical studies and shorter studies of the books of James and Colossians. For the next two weeks, we’re going to study Luke 24 concerning the resurrection. We picked Luke for the study because beginning in May we are going to start a study of Acts. Each week, we will read and discussion one or two chapters of ...

TweetShareYesterday, I received a “heads up” about a recent survey conducted by Crosswalk.com. The results of the survey are revealed in an article titled “Crosswalk.com Survey: Lack of Connection Biggest Reason Christians Leave Church.” Here are a few interesting points/quotes from the article: 34% of people who attend church leave because of a lack of personal connections there. One participant who voiced his discourage...

TweetShareLast week, I wrote “How does our church meet together (Part 1).” In that post, I described what happened when our church gathered together on Sunday, April 3, 2011. I also said that our next weekly meeting (April 10, 2011 – 2 days ago), would be somewhat different. In this post, I’m going to describe how we met together last Sunday. We’ve met like this several times during the last year, and most people see...