Holiness Reeducation

What does the culture and church in Europe have to teach us about the North American church? That is one of the primary questions that I went into our European expedition asking. It is a question I have been pondering for some time. When we began to talk to people about this trip, I kept [...]

  Most of you will be familiar with the scene in the movie the Matrix where Neo has to choose between taking the red pill or the blue pill. If he takes the blue pill he will wake up in his bed and his life will go on the same as it always has. If [...]

With the grounding of the Space Shuttle program run out of Cape Canaveral, Florida NASA now finds itself with a number of facilities that it can no longer use. It has launch pads, giant shuttle movers, huge warehouses where assembly took place, and one of the longest runways in the world, all essentially with a [...]

Jim Collins, in his masterful book Good to Great says that good is the enemy of great. Good makes us comfortable. Good removes our desire to make the difficult decision necessary to be great. Here are the opening words from Collins book in chapter 1. Good is the enemy of great. And that is one [...]

The gospel you preach will determine the disciples you make. Does the gospel you preach naturally lead people to a life of discipleship? What do the disciples your gospel produces look like? Those are the very important questions I have been wrestling with since returning from the Missional Learning Commons on Saturday. Is our struggle [...]

Happy Reformation Day for all of you Protestants out there. Almost 500 years ago Martin Luther, writing more as a scholar than an intended reformer sparked a wave of transformation that has changed the very fabric of Christianity. I mean without Luther we would never have ended up with the Single Men Between the age [...]

A beautiful fall weekend in Indiana birthed a wonderful day of worship at DCC yesterday. What a privilege it is to proclaim the love of God each week. There is an almost indescribable joy in watching grace fall on a congregation and begin to work its way into the hearts of those gathered. It is [...]

What happens when we not only put the cart before the horse, but sometimes put the horse in the cart? That is the question I have been pondering for the past week since my time with Mike Breen and the great folks at 3DM. One of the most thought provoking studies we did was looking [...]

Is a poor theology of salvation working against our mission in the evangelical church? For the past several weeks we have been discussing David Fitch’s new book The End of Evangelicalism? You can see the earlier parts of this conversation here and here.  Today we continue by examining the “Decision for Christ”, how our theology [...]

Does neo-Reformed theology work against missional living as the church? That is the question David Fitch is asking today. I was going to continue my review of The End of Evangelicalism? today but this post merited some thoughts instead. I argued that Reformed theology, extracted out of Medeival Europe and transplanted to the frontiers of [...]