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First up at Advance09 was Mark Driscoll who is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA. From my understanding Seattle is a hard city for the Gospel, people largely view the Church as irrelevant, bigoted and backwards (unfortunately, the caricature is not inaccurate enough).
The title/question is a significant one. It’s important to [...]
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I spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week in the Durham, NC area at the Advance09 conference. It was a conference about the resurgance of the local church. I’m not talking about a political power and I’m not talking about something that involves violent war metaphors, protests and bait-and-switch events. In the past decades [...]
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Ran into a road block today on differring views on church, para-church and worship.
I think it will end up being a great discussion. I have strong views on some of the stuff, but I am realizing that I don’t know if I can articulate them or back them up very strongly.
I like having my theology/philosophy/logic [...]
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As I read and learn more and more about the history of the basic branches of the Protestant church I find that the pattern of too-hard – too-soft – just-right in almost every run down of their distinctives and doctrines. There are issues of the “real presence” in communion, baptism (both child and believer’s), church [...]
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It is both fortunate and unfortunate; the occurrences of the past week.
I really feel that within the past week that Carrie and I really have started to connect with and develop some friends in the area that are totally outside of our team. It has been a bit depressing with all of the people that [...]
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