Live Blog: Churchy folk on Missional Imagination

Presenters:
Dave Ferguson
New Thing Network
www.newthing.org
Mark Batterson
National Community Church
www.theaterchurch.com
Creating a culture in a congregation that challenges people, inspires them, and encourages normal people to carry out their ideas.
Missonal Imagination:
Remembers sitting in a room with lots of pastors with a large amount of influence.  Many who might be deemed “successful” in ministry.  One said: I wonder if [...]

Thou Shalt Not Covet.

Fuller sent this nice coupon to me in the mail upon my seminary graduation. Please contain your jealousies.

I’ve Lately Wondered if I Should Get Re-Baptized…

Adult baptism was a dramatic event in the early church. After a lengthy period of study and fasting, the new Christian would be, in the darkness of Easter morning, stripped naked and fully immersed before being reclothed in new white garments–a symbol of death to the old life and birth to the new.
–William Placher, [...]

Oh Origen, oh so unoriginal.

Tonight I am writing a paper for my phenomenal New Testament class on “Women, the Bible, and the Church,” with Dr. David Scholer. We are unabashedly studying the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is a class on how women in the church have been treated over the ages, and why. [...]

day seven.