Religion is a person sitting in church thinking about kayaking. Spirituality is a person sitting in a kayak, thinking about God.
01550 – Religion vs. Spirituality
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01504 – Going Where Questions Lead
They said that if I questioned a 6,000-year-old earth, I would question whether other parts of Scripture should be read scientifically and historically. They were right. I did. They said that if I entertained the hope that those without access to the gospel might...
01499 – One Style, or Two Styles of Worship?
To call for two styles and to find impetus for the wintry sort of search demands boldness. It receives so little attention that anyone who defends it may well express the old reformers' anxiety: Am I alone right, and is the whole church wrong? Why in our era does the...
01475 – Non-Working Parts
If a car had as many non-working parts as a church, it wouldn't run downhill.
01464 – The Church was Silent
The Church confesses her timidity, her evasiveness, her dangerous concessions. ..She was silent when she should have cried out...she failed to speak the right word in the right way at the right time.
01457 – The Proof of the Resurrection
The proof of the resurrection is not in rational argument but in the community of the resurrected people. The church is called to be a sign, a witness to the Easter message that Christ has overcome the powers of evil (Eph 3:10). from Ancient-Future Time
01437 – Christianity is a Lifestyle
It seems to me that it is a minority that ever gets the true and full Gospel. We just keep worshiping Jesus and arguing over the exact right way to do it. The amazing thing is that Jesus never once says, "worship me!", but he often says, "follow me" (Matt.4:19)....
01432 – The Future’s in the Margins
The folks you're shutting out of the church today will be leading it tomorrow. That's how the Spirit works. The future's in the margins.
01418 – Just Imagine!
Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Imagine if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary. from Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
01404 – Church is a Connector
[An] airport is a place of connection, not a destination. Its job is to help people get somewhere else. An airport-centric world of travel would be dull and frustrating, no matter how nice the airport is. When the church thinks it's the destination, it also confuses...