Author Archives: rthenderson

2/24/14: WHEN THE CHURCH BECOMES IMMUNIZED (TO ITS OWN MESSAGE) Hey, guys! I hang–out a lot at coffee shops. Invariably, my revealing of my career as a teaching-pastor in the church creates some interesting responses. I’m a fairly friendly guy, … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/20/14. THE CHURCH AND ITS LEADERSHIP: MUST BE DEEPLY IMMERSED IN THE REALITIES OF DAILY LIFE. Our walk of faith as the people of God, and as leaders of the church, is in the “stink and stuff” of daily … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/16/14. CONCEIVING LEADERSHIP FOR NEW CREATION COMMUNITIES.   Pursuing this quest for an alternative narrative for tomorrow’s church, one quickly runs head-on into a major obstacle, which is that there are so many filters that hinder us in our … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/12/14. WHAT DOES AN AUTHENTIC DISCIPLE OF CHRIST LOOK LIKE ? If you are following all of my ‘ruminations’ in these Blogs about an alternative narrative for the tomorrow’s church, then one of the very most basic questions would … Continue reading →

BLOG 2/10/14: TOMORROW’S CHURCH: RELINQUISHING TRADITIONAL FORMS One inescapable transition that is already inevitably and ineluctably taking place, as we project our alternative narrative for tomorrow’s church, is that it will have to relinquish its dependence upon venerated traditions such … Continue reading →

CHURCH: COMMUNITIES OF CARING, MEANING, AND HOPE   I’m writing this, sitting here in a coffee shop amidst high achieving urban adults, laptops everywhere, and no telling how much amazing information is being processed in just this one location. But … Continue reading →

2/3/14. THE CHURCH FOR AN EMERGING GENERATION OF PRAGMATISTS So in my Blogs having to do with an alternative narrative for the church, and especially for the emerging generation, we have, first of all the inescapable fact that over 50% … Continue reading →

BEING ‘THE CHURCH’ IN A CULTURE THAT COULDN’T CARE LESS In my quest (with the readers of these Blogs) to come up with an alternative narrative for the church as it finds itself now in an increasingly post-Christian and post-modern … Continue reading →

A MUCH NEEDED CORRECTIVE TO MY LAST BLOG-POST I am so very grateful for a comment on my last post (1/22/14)—beside the fact that some thoughtful folk are reading these blogs. You may recall that I was proposing that tomorrow’s … Continue reading →

BLOG 1/22/14. COLONIES WHICH DEMONSTRATE NEW CREATION PRIORITIES   Those readers, who follow my Blogs, are fully aware that I am quite persuaded that the familiar institutional form which the church has primarily taken for at least the last millennium … Continue reading →