Just some questions buzzing round my head. Is it right as a follower of Jesus to consider the concept of ‘success’? If so, what is the disciple’s definition of success? How can it be measured? Is it fair for it to be measured as other non-Christian projects are measured? Is it possible that we may […]
Read More Measuring SuccessThis is a precarious project. The instructions were straightforward, but it’s often those that get muddled in our efforts to … ‘simplify’ the straightforward. They called him many things – some thought he was Elijah, some thought he was John the Baptist, some considered him to be a great prophet and others were hoping he […]
Read More Precarious Projects: Disciples Making DisciplesThis is a precarious project. There’s method to how he starts it. He gets one man from one family to link up with one woman from another family. He says to both that they should leave their respective ties to make a brand new tie together. He then gets them to develop that tie in […]
Read More Precarious Projects: A Community of TrustWhen I was a lot younger, I was given to having a rather dramatic reaction to things that happened. A good way of expressing that is my given moods when my football team won or lost. If my team won, I would be so buoyant you would not be able to stop me walking on […]
Read More Everything Is Not RuinedI love reading scripture with others. Whether they are outstanding orators and dramatists or those struggling in their reading. I love it because through it – just the reading of it – I get so much more than just reading it by myself. There’s something to be said for giving that a go as a […]
Read More Reading It TogetherBe yourself, no matter what they say. Recently I spent a lot of the day listening on repeat to a particular track. I love this version more than the original, which is saying something. In listening to it, that line repeated at the end hung around – be yourself, no matter what they say. That is […]
Read More He Did Not ConformThis blog has been going in some form or other for quite a while now. I don’t often go and look at what I wrote way back when, but today I was looking at an issue and considered what I wrote on the matter. There has been a lot written on this blog about fruitfulness. […]
Read More “Without Me, You Can Do Nothing” Another Thought on FruitfulnessPicture this. The man is put in the cell and you hear the door slam behind him. It’s dark, it’s confined and the sense of being closed in on yourself soon becomes suffocating. No one like to be locked up. Apparently. The visual is related to someone being incarcerated. They have committed a crime and […]
Read More Locked UpI remember a brief exchange I had with King Arthur Sido. In it I was buzzed up with some article about church planting and that kind of thing. In essence King Arthur’s response was that it was more important to be about the business of sharing the gospel and making disciples as Jesus taught than […]
Read More Basics In PlaceYou read it one way, he reads it another way, she reads it another way and they don’t even think we know how to read it which is why they go to somewhere else where one person wrote the text which makes it a lot easier. Then others suggest we don’t need an ancient text […]
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