Ecclesiology is as much about what you don’t say as what you say. This is something they say a lot at One Life: At One Life we do life in groups and teams. Not to speak for One Life, but I want to offer my own commentary on this. This is one 2017 paradigm of […]
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We Can’t Reach Something We Are Afraid to Touch
[13] He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. [14] And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him. [15] And as […]
Unifying spread out communities
Unity within a spread out group like a multi-site church. that was one of the main topics last week at One Life Core. These are my notes on the night and some of my own commentary. A shared language and shared ideals help people that aren’t together all the time keep unity with one another. […]
Heroes and Damsels in Christian Community
We all love to be the hero and save the day. But the pride of isolation wins out when we are in need of help. What if we saw our times of needing help as chances to make somebody feel like a hero? I know that goes way against a John Wayne Republican Protestant work […]
Extra Presence for Christmas
This week we have been doing one of the things that our Christian community, The People of Praise, does regularly all over the United States: we’ve been a ‘household.’ We aren’t the only ones doing this, from the looks of Instagram, but everyone else calls it ‘having house guests.’ Having someone stay at your house […]