We live in a culture of notorious non-joiners, and I am one of them. Way back when, while thinking about what the hypothetical church I might someday start would look like, I was dead set against having “church membership.” What could be more useless? I knew I was committed, God knew I was [...]
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I am working on turning my PhD dissertation into a book for church leaders. I appreciate Wesley Granberg-Michaelson’s language of settled or sent congregations. It is not simply either/or but it presents a [...]
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Peter Rollins packed out the Chang Commons Community Room at Fuller last Friday night. You should have been there because we can’t release the recording until after his book tour is finished.
However, the dedicated and intrepid Matt Lumpkin painstakingly captured 1,160 words (or the equivalent) of the Peter Rollins at Fuller Experience. Enjoy! more...
I am an evangelical. It defines the way I think (my orthodoxy), how I act (my orthopraxy), and how I relate to God, to others and my world (my orthopathy). This is a joyful and hopeful way of being a Christian. An evangelical loves God greatly, and seeks to serve others and [...]
more...I was part of a group of 15 seminary professors and pastors who gathered in Richmond Virginia a week ago. We were invited together by The Ecclesia Network and The Baptist General Association of Virginia to talk about and mourn the fragmenting and polarization of North American evangelicalism over recent years. But more, we gathered [...]
more...This interview was recorded in 2009 during Wright’s Doctor of Ministry class called “Church Shaped by Mission.” Bishop Wright talks about the mission-only focus (in place of worship, discipleship, etc.) of some churches, the emerging church and this hopes for the church in the future.
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