Posted in Books, Church on August 23, 2006 | 6 Comments »
A Few Points from…
“The Present Future” by Reggie McNeal
Reggie McNeal worked in various congregations in various leadership roles for twenty years. For the past decade now, he’s been working with thousands of church leaders as something of a counselor, consultant, and coach. From that experience come the thoughts that follow.
McNeal, along with most [...]
Posted in Books on August 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
One task I’ve found myself in the midst of lately is a lot of reading; not forced, actually quite by choice. A habit I’m trying to build upon that is to write something of a summary of what I read, in order to pass it on to others.
The next post on this blog will [...]
Posted in Following on August 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A “church book” I was reading this week was talking about congregations that “keep score”. This wasn’t about budgets or baptisms; rather it was saying that “score-keeping” is good because it drives us to set objectives and then aim to meet them. I know what he meant, but the “score” concept rubs a [...]
Posted in Scripture on August 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A beauty from this morning’s reading…
Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
What sort of house could you build for Me?
Could you provide Me a suitable dwelling place?
I made everything; I own it all!
But there is something I’m looking [...]
Posted in Books, China, Following on August 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Watchman Nee, a Chinese Christian and church leader right up until his death in prison in 1972, wrote a classic book called “The Normal Christian Life”. Below is a passage from it. Is this normal for you? It seems that it’s supposed to be.
When the Galilean boy brought his bread to the [...]
