Monthly Archives: May 2013

BLOG. 5/30/13. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS CHURCH MEMBERSHIP ALL ABOUT?   For the Traditionalist Generation, in which I grew up, no one ever questioned existing institutions much; we simply accepted them as ‘givens’. And growing up in church institutions … Continue reading →

BLOG. 5/27/13: THE INEVITABEL REDEFING OF CHURCH LEADERSHIP   On this Memorial Day and Monday morning, allow me to convey a very strong impression which comes as a result of my 5/13/13 Blog on: “The Liability of Being Called ‘Reverend.” … Continue reading →

A correction on today’s post, in the last line shoud read: each without the other is incomplete. (No matter how many times I proof read these posts, errors seem to creep in, alas!)

BLOG. 5/22/13: REACTION TO LAST BLOG ON LIFE-SPAN OF THE CHURCH   I received an interesting comment, somewhat in reaction to my insistence in the last Blog, that a church must reproduce itself every generation.   My respondent was of … Continue reading →

BLOG 5/20/13: WHAT IS THE LIFE-SPAN OF A CHURCH COMMUNITY? Here’s a good Monday morning question for you: If a Christian community (i.e., a church) is a living organism created to be the communal incarnation of Christ, and of his … Continue reading →

BLOG 5/16/13. A BIT OF SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION I hope that my readers will forgive me for a bit of self-promotion. It is prompted by the email advertisement of Wipf and Stock Publishers this week, promoting their new publications in theology. … Continue reading →

BLOG. 5/13/13. THE LIABILITY OF BEING CALLED “REVEREND’ Whenever someone calls me Doctor (which I’m not), or Reverend (which title I disdain), I find that something inevitably happens, there is some kind of an invisible barrier that descends and makes … Continue reading →

BLOG 5/9/13: WHAT IS THE LIFE-SPAN OF A CONGREGATION? The life span of a congregation: what? I was discussing this with a wonderful friend who is a church planter over lunch in our favorite pub one day. So a vital … Continue reading →

BLOG 5/6/13: MAYBE A WORD FROM JEFF BEZOS TO CHURCH LEADERSHIP It may be a weird place to find some profound wisdom for the church leadership who live frustrated with the impotence of so much of the church scene, but, … Continue reading →

BLOG 5/2/13 AT THE END OF THE LORD’S PRAYER … A WAKE-UP CALL At the end of the Lord’s Prayer there is an interesting “wake-up call” that doesn’t get much notice. At the beginning of that prayer is the petition … Continue reading →