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Recently I visited the smallest church in America. Yes, I’m being serious. Here’s a few more shots I took: And here’s inside the building: It’s actually even smaller than it looks in the photos. I was driving down a backwoods highway in Georgia and saw the sign and had to stop. I was really surprised [...]
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I’m getting sick of always hearing about what the Church is doing wrong from people who offer no solutions other than to give up on it. The bottom line is, the Body of Christ isn’t going away – it is Christ’s Bride whom He loves and for whom He died. Whether She meets in houses, [...]
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I’ve heard a lot about this lately. A church in St. Louis, MO recently canceled services in order to do community projects. Several people whose opinions I respect have mentioned the prospect of doing this lately, and several others whom I also respect have voiced strong opposition to this. Here’s a short video about this [...]
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I was listening to a podcast on Issues Etc. earlier this week and I was struck by a profound thought. The title of the podcast was “The Vocation of Minister.” I’d normally link directly to it but the site appears to be down as I’m writing this, nothing will load. The guest speaker was talking [...]
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Today is the first day of Lent, a 40 day season of the historical church year leading up to Easter, also metaphorically corresponding to the 40 days Jesus was tempted while fasting in the desert. Originally, Lent was a period of intense fasting and prayer that believers went through prior to being baptized at the [...]
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I read a great post the other day on Samantha Krieger’s blog entitled “Marriage: Built to Last.” I wrote a comment that essentially became a post, so I wanted to share it. “Marriage is hard work.” Wow, is it. Tiffany and I just celebrated three years of marriage and while it is rewarding, it has [...]
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This post is the product of a series of conversations with Mike Baker and a recent post by Daniel and Heather Cosby entitled “Demolition of the Heart…”. In Daniel and Heather’s post, they wrote: “Over the last year or two, we have spent considerable energy trying to expose and dismantle the beliefs surrounding this worldly-derived [...]
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Yesterday Tiffany and I visited yet another church. It was fairly nice, but like most churches, it just struck us as being very fake, it didn’t feel authentic. The worship leader talks a lot like a stoned hippie: “Let’s just focus on the King this morning…”, “Can you feel the Spirit as we magnify our [...]
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Tiffany and I (Dan) ate at a local restaurant called Houlihan’s the other day, and as I sat there waiting for the check, I realized that Houlihan’s was a lot like a typical American church. Let me walk you through the similarities. The Experience Before going there, I checked out the website to see the [...]
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Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Church, recently studied Acts 2 to come up with a definition of what constitutes a Christian Church. This is what he came up with: The local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord. In obedience to Scripture they organize under qualified leadership, gather [...]
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As promised in a previous post, I am going to write about Jonah and how he serves as an analogy for the condition of the American church. I’ve facetiously labeled this condition “Jonah-itis.” It is crucial to understanding the Bible to know that God has always desired to be the God of all nations, not [...]
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How many times have I said those words followed by some great goal that I have yet to accomplish? Too many. I’m still working on my New Year’s Resolution from two years ago: to lose weight (unfortunately the number on the scale has been moving in the wrong direction over the last few years). But [...]
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Recently I posted a video entitled What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? I got a lot of good reactions from the video, and it’s best you watch it prior to reading this post, although not necessary. It really made me (and many others) think about how scary church marketing tactics really are — and [...]
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Apple launched an advertising campaign you may be familiar with called Mac vs. PC. I stumbled across a parody of these videos called “Christ Follower vs. Christian” that I thought was pretty entertaining. Don’t worry, this is not becoming a video log (vlog), I will still be writing more great content, but some things are [...]
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I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I saw this video. It does a great job exposing how church marketing sucks, and how it scares people (myself included). You have to see this! Does this remind you of any churches you know of?
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Or at least that’s the message I seem to be hearing from a lot of America’s largest churches and most popular preachers. What ever happened to denying ourselves? What ever happened to the (gulp) offensive teaching that we don’t have the ability in our flesh to discern right from wrong? Whatever happened to keeping the [...]
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