Conflict is the last thing anyone wants from their “church experience.” After all, we go to church to feel better, to get a little uplift to face the week, right? It’s the one place where we don’t have to deal with the typical human foibles of self-interest, pettiness, passive-aggression…right? I mean, sure, we may have...
Tag: ecclesiology
Turning Theology into Church 02: Obsessed with Health
Churches obsess about a lot of things. Some things important (e.g., budgets and buildings and staff). Most…not so much (from the minutiae of worship to revamping the website one more time). And none of these the stuff that stands at the center of the biblical story. So what should a church obsess about??? What should...
Turning Theology into Church 01: Committing to Community
The true test of a theology is not questions is answers but the community it creates. Having just spent more than a year developing an understanding of the biblical narrative – centered on the conviction that God is love – we now turn our attention to “us,” to the conscious shaping of our life...