This PowerPoint presentation looks at the seven gifts listed in Romans 12, and the motivations and ways that different people use those differing gifts.
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A Tale of Two Ministries
December 27, 2010
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In nature, there’s a word for a place with inflow but no outflow: It’s called a swamp. God’s people are not called to be dead, stagnant swamps, but to offer living water: Cool, fresh, flowing and life giving. Unfortunately, too many church gatherings are about inflow and not outflow. Churches today are focused on meetings [...]
Read moreDiverse Gifts and Church Meetings, Part 1: The Motivational Gifts
December 19, 2010
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It’s one thing to embrace Paul’s metaphor of the church being the Body of Christ, where everyone participates and ministers one to another according to our unique spiritual gifts. It’s quite another thing to figure out how to do that in practical terms, especially when we meet together and abstract principles hit cold, hard reality.
Read moreThe Church in the New Testament: Its Form, Function and Purpose
October 31, 2010
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Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride! In this PowerPoint presentation, all that you think of as “church” is about to be challenged so God can woo us back to being, once more, the multi-faceted, wonderful, exciting Body of Christ.
Read moreAuthentic Church
May 3, 2010
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“So here’s what I want you to do. When you gather for worship, each one of you be prepared with something that will be useful for all: Sing a hymn, teach a lesson, tell a story, lead a prayer, provide an insight… Take your turn, no one person taking over. Then each speaker gets a [...]
Read moreReboot
March 15, 2010
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God seems to be laying a foundation for yet another of His periodic, history-changing interventions in the affairs of man. Over the last two thousand years there have been many such paradigm shifts, and it’s naive to think that our current, settled status quo will somehow be exempt from the unsettling but progressive advance of [...]
Read moreTrue Ministry
February 27, 2010
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Last night, we had one of our best times of “participatory church” as we seamlessly shared a meal, partook of communion, fellowshipped and ministered one with another — and none of it depended on me! The last several weeks have been very emotionally and physically exhausting for me. On top of my best friend dying, [...]
Read more Improbable Church
January 31, 2010
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If you saw the church that meets in my home, you would laugh and wonder: “What can God do with these people?” Yet, isn’t that God’s way: to establish his Kingdom on earth by transforming lives, cultures, nations and history not with the ordained, but with the ordinary?
Read morePimping the Gospel
October 30, 2009
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For the prosperity gospel televangelists, God’s highest purpose is to bless me by satisfying my carnal desires for wealth, health and power – but only if I bless them first.
Read more Evangelical Prophets or Martyrs?
October 6, 2009
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Why do those “on point” for the Kingdom of God increasingly seek refuge from the prevailing pop-theology (or dare I say lack of theology) and me-focused brand of Christianity that animates many of our church leaders and cuts believers off from the great historic doctrines and creeds of our faith?
Read more Participatory Church
September 17, 2009
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My journey from traditional “church”, and some of what I’ve learned about being the church – the exciting, enticing, enthralling and multi-faceted Body of Christ!
Read more The Gift of Mercy
August 4, 2009
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Mercy is the most powerful, but most abused, of all the spiritual gifts.
Read more Gifts, Calling and Validation
July 28, 2009
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Like many, I found my validation in my gifts and abilities. If we understand the different spiritual gifts listed in Romans 12 – and find the one that corresponds to our personality – then we can instead begin to find our validation in pleasing the Father.
Read moreBeen Hearing God Lately?
March 25, 2009
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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how God fellowshipped with Adam. It was in the garden, where the two of them walked side by side and talked face to face in the cool of the evening. God met Adam in his full humanity, where life sprang forth both within and around Adam. It took [...]
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Teacher, pilot, foe of tyrants, world traveler, passionate, attorney, entrepreneur, friend of the dispossessed, Christian, thinker, reluctant counselor, occasional mentor, brother in the Lord, adequate cook, pretty good host and so-so bass fisherman.According to the internet tracking service Networked Blogs, Crossroad Junction is among the top 100 blogs worldwide on "Christianity" and also among the top 100 on "faith".
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- A Hollow Gospel
- The Mythology of Tithing
- Rethinking Missions
- Participatory Church
- Ordained to Fail
- Pimping the Gospel
- Dealing With Church Leadership Abuse
- Sufficient Grace
- Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 2: How Should We React?
- Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 4: Civil and Criminal Law
- Jesus at the Fringes
- The Priesthood of All Believers
- We Have Met the Enemy
- A Multilingual Jesus
- Planting Churches
- Room at the Inn
- Redemption
- Ekklesia as Escapism
- I Am Content
- About Justice
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