Throughout the history of the Church, there has been a constant renegotiation of the teachings of Scripture and understanding of God’s Reality. From Peter’s reunderstanding of what was considered clean and unclean in the Book of Acts to Martin Luther’s revelation of salvation by faith alone to contemporary notions of women ecclesial roles, Truth has [...]
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UPDATE: I fear that I have misrepresented the quoted commenter from my previous post. While I did not at all intend to do so, it seems like I made him out to be those who equate homosexuals with child molesters. What is especially unfortunate is I assumed that this person didn’t have any relational experience [...]
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UPDATE: I’ve gotten some great comments on a post I wrote in response to a revelation I received (from Jeremy, not Jesus!) during my Church Planting 1 class last week. I commented waaaay below to clarify my post a bit, so I thought I would (in the lingo of my form life on Capitol Hill) [...]
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I am really overloaded right now after my week long intensive church planting class. Because I do not like not posting regularly, I thought I would bring out another post from my archives. Because so many of you are new to novus•lumen, I like introducing you to pieces I’ve previously written that are buried [...]
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Last evening I attended a GLBT event at a local university with a friend of mine. He thought it would be a good event for me to attend as I wrestle with how the Church should respond to and interact with the gay community.
At the event we watched a short film on gay and lesbian [...]
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Any takers?
As I mentioned, I’m in a week intensive church planting class and yesterday we spent the whole day in deep reflection on the definition, vision, and marks of the Church.
Our instructor, Dr. Doug Fagerstom, gave our groups 10 minutes to answer these question. Before I post some of the things we came up with [...]
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How would you respond to that statement? That the Church/Christianity is f***ed up?
That’s what one of my co-workers said to me this evening. Some of you know that I started working at Starbucks a few months ago to get some extra money and maintain my connections to the Other outside the sanitary walls of Seminary. [...]
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