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Jack at “Flight Level Musings” has written a great post called “What is Community?” It’s hard to find just one part to quote, but I’ll start with this paragraph, where Jack talks about Jesus exchanging blood family for God’s family: Here Jesus broke with the blood family and established God’s family. Since people of that time already understood strong-group family culture, it was not a difficult s...

Earlier this week, I wrote about our church meeting last Sunday. (see my post “Meeting Around the Table of the Lord“) After publishing that post, I remembered that there was another time 3 years ago that we had the bread, then a meal, then the cup as part of our meeting. But, that time was a different kind of meeting. That was a meeting set aside to reading through the entire Gospel of John in one night. Here is what I wrote about it ...

Bill at “NT/History Blog” has written an excellent post called “Walking Distance Ecclesiology.” He says that the cities of the first century (Thessalonica, even Rome and Jerusalem) were small enough (about 1 square mile) that people could easily walk anywhere within the city within a few minutes. This means that the early Christians were easily accessible to one another. And, that’s a good thing. Why? This is what Bi...

Just under two years ago, I wrote a post called “A Cup o’ Joe or a Cup with Joe.” This was one of the most fun posts to write, and it led to the most interesting and fun comment threads. I hope you enjoy this post. ———————————————— A Cup o’ Joe or a Cup with Joe A few weeks ago, my friend Joe invited me for a cup of coffee. We d...

Sunday evening worship service = Margaret and Miranda helping some friends paint their house. I “cooked” dinner for them: McDoubles and Fish Filet sandwiches. Tuesday evening worship service = helping our friends hang a light fixture. Unfortunately, we were not able to complete the project. But, maybe we’ll be able to soon. Like Unlike Related Posts:Tuesday Night Worship ServiceWorship ServiceWorship Service…The church is...

So, I seem to be on a “unity” kick lately, huh? I’m probably thinking more about unity because I’ve been reading John H. Armstrong’s book Your Church is Too Small. But, actually, I’ve been thinking about and writing about unity for quite some time. Three years ago, I wrote a post called “There is something fundamental about fellowship.” This post casts our unity with one another in the language of f...

Tonight, “Wednesday night worship service” = being taken out to dinner by our good friends. They thought they were doing this to thank us, but really they were doing this because we wanted to spend time with them. Don’t tell them though. Like Unlike Related Posts:Tuesday Night Worship ServiceA Full Week – in the positive senseWorship ServiceWorship Service…Working together to serve others Share This Post: ...

My presentation of “A Theology of Mutuality” at SECSOR 2010 went pretty well. I started having allergy problems yesterday. (Welcome back to Georgia!) I had a little trouble breathing, watery eyes, and a scratchy throat while delivering my paper. But, I made it through, and even had a few good questions. One person suggested I turn the presentation into a book. A new friend, Neil Carter, from the blog “Christ in Y’all”...

I had a very encouraging conversation yesterday with a brother concerning Romans 14:1-15:7. We were talking about how to disagree with brothers and sisters without separating from them. Here are some points from our discussion: Start with our agreement, primarily in the person and work of Jesus Christ, in our common relationship to God and to one another. When we start with our agreement we can recognize that most of our disagreements are insign...

In Philippians 1:5, Paul thanks God for those in Philippi who were partners with him in the task of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ! The word “partner” and the idea of “fellowship” (same word in this case) are very important to Paul and the other authors of the New Testament. I’m planning to go to Ethiopia this summer as part of a group led by Dave and BeckyLynn Black. One of the things that I’ve been...