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Being the Church

July 31, 2011 by Jim Wright 0 Comments

This short video brought tears to my eyes over my longing for authentic church to take root throughout our communities.

Church, Courage, Great Commission, Kingdom of God

The Church in the New Testament: Its Form, Function and Purpose

October 31, 2010 by Jim Wright 2 Comments

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.

Church, Community, Elder, Faith, Fellowship, Gifts, Great Commission, House Church, Institutional Church, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Ministry, Organic Church, Pastor

Reboot

March 15, 2010 by Jim Wright 3 Comments

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 [...]

Church, Community, Culture, Fellowship, Gifts, Institutional Church, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Ministry, New Wine, Pastors, Transcendent

Repentance, Forgiveness and the Kingdom of God

February 13, 2010 by Jim Wright 2 Comments

Recorded before a group of men in the local jail, this 55 minute audio teaching explains how we find peace and freedom when we allow God, through authentic Biblical confession, repentance and forgiveness, to change what we think, believe and perceive. That, in turn, allows us to know the righteousness, peace and joy that comes [...]

Confession, Counseling, Forgiveness, Healing, Kingdom of God, Ministry, Repentance

Improbable Church

January 31, 2010 by Jim Wright 6 Comments

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?

Community, Fellowship, Gifts, Joy, Kingdom of God, Organic Church

Pimping the Gospel

October 30, 2009 by Jim Wright 15 Comments

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.

Abuse, Fakes, Gifts, Kingdom of God, Manassas, New Covenant Fellowship, Prosperity Gospel, Sovereignty

Evangelical Prophets or Martyrs?

October 6, 2009 by Jim Wright 6 Comments

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?

Catholicism, Charismatic, Church, Eastern Orthodox, Eschatology, Evangelical, Gifts, Great Commission, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Pentecostal, Pietism, Sovereignty, Truth, Worldview

Participatory Church

September 17, 2009 by Jim Wright 19 Comments

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!

Community, Elder, Gifts, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Organic Church, Pastor

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The Church in D Pod

July 26, 2009 by Jim Wright 8 Comments

This Sunday, like most Sundays, I will be fellowshipping with the “Church in D Pod” at the local jail. D Pod is a unit housing around a hundred men, and God has been pouring out his new wine in an exciting way among those inmates. A couple of months ago, I started shifting my focus [...]

Faith, Grace, Jail, Joy, Kingdom of God, Mentor, Ministry, New Wine, Organic Church, Sovereignty

New Wine Sucks

July 7, 2009 by Jim Wright 3 Comments

As God brings forth new wine in a new generation, there’s a fundamental dynamic that can’t be ignored. To put it bluntly, new wine sucks! In my younger days, I was an amateur wine maker. So I know what Jesus means when he says, “no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he [...]

Community, Faith, Joy, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Ministry, New Wine, Organic Church, Pastors

New Wine And Old Skins

July 1, 2009 by Jim Wright 1 Comment

Here’s an interesting article, reprinted below, on how people will stick to what they believe or think even in the face of contrary facts or circumstances. As I’ve watched people react to challenges and controversies over the last couple of months, and to God bursting old wine skins as he brings forth new wine, I can [...]

Community, Faith, Jail, Joy, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Ministry, New Wine, Organic Church, Pastors, Sovereignty

God is Not Passive

March 21, 2009 by Jim Wright 4 Comments

I’m seeing others who also are quietly moving forward, with fire stirring in their spirits, to proclaim true repentance, Christ’s Lordship and the Kingdom of God rather than conformist, complacent Christianity. These co-conspirators are being compelled by God to preach outside our churches because too many of our pastors have been unwilling, so far, to [...]

Brokenness, Church, Conversion, Faith, Kingdom of God, Repentance, Sovereignty

Emergents and Old Farts

March 7, 2009 by Jim Wright 4 Comments

We don’t need to frustrate generational “emergents” into joining churches with borderline heretical “emergent” theology. Rather, our existing churches need to let them emerge into ministry and leadership, embrace their energy and life, and allow them to shake things up while mentoring them in what remains standing. Only then can we burst our old rigid [...]

Emergent, Kingdom of God

Rethinking Missions

February 20, 2009 by Jim Wright 21 Comments

If evangelical Christians have the equivalent of a “sacred cow,” it must be foreign missions. At the risk of martyrdom, I hereby declare that it’s time to slay that cow (or at least herd it into a different pasture!).

America, Christian, Church, Community, Culture, Great Commission, Kingdom of God, Missions

Jim Wright

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.

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The Mythology of Tithing November 26, 2011
Rethinking Missions February 20, 2009
Participatory Church September 17, 2009
Ordained to Fail November 16, 2011
Pimping the Gospel October 30, 2009
Dealing With Church Leadership Abuse May 20, 2009
Sufficient Grace March 30, 2009
Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 2: How Should We React? May 28, 2011
Confronting Abusive Pastors, Part 4: Civil and Criminal Law May 30, 2011

Jesus at the Fringes February 4, 2012
The Priesthood of All Believers January 23, 2012
We Have Met the Enemy January 17, 2012
A Multilingual Jesus January 16, 2012
Planting Churches January 3, 2012
Room at the Inn December 24, 2011
Redemption December 21, 2011
Ekklesia as Escapism December 19, 2011
I Am Content December 15, 2011
About Justice December 8, 2011