Those who are on a spiritual journey, and are frustrated with church and people in the church should take a minute to read this:
This radical Christian’s ministry for the poor, The Simple Way, has gotten him in some trouble with his fellow Evangelicals. We asked him to address those who don’t believe.
This should be a huge wake up call for the church. This week we helped Northpoint church’s Buckhead campus test the threshold for their servers anticipating large numbers of people to join them online for church.
This is a difficult thing to grasp if you grew up in church, but we must adjust to the next generation if we expect to reach them with The Way.
OK, so I know this is not interesting to everyone, but the oldest existing translation of the bible (the 1600 year old codex sinaiticus) has been completely digitized and is searchable online. It is a greek translation.
CLICK HERE to read the NPR story
CLICK HERE to actually see the text online.
Last year when we first formed our Tuesday group several of us were talking about two books by Frank Viola. The books Pagan Christianity and Reimagining the Church were very negative about the current state of the church and left some people feeling beat up.
Frank wrote a new book “From Here to Eternity”. I just finished reading the first of 3 sections to Shari. It is about the bride of Jesus. It is written very beautifully and though it is not poetry it has a poetic feel to it.
The next two sections are the body of Christ and the family of Christ. The section on the body of Christ is much more technical and less poetic or romantic in nature.
I think the book has something for everyone and will encourage everyone with hope that the church really is God’s heart and passion and the church is at the center of God’s plan and purpose for eternity.
Since things have been crazy lately I thought I would provide a general post to let everyone know what’s up.
This Sunday we are going to visit Washington Street Baptist Church in Greenville. I will post updates as to what time, where to meet etc. soon.
One Week from Friday we will meet at Fiesta Grill for Karaoke, food and general fun. More details to come.
UPDATE:____________________________________________________________
Plans have been changed for Karaoke – it’ll be
Friday the 5th at 7:00 PM
Fiesta on 93 in Central.
The Quattlebaum life group watched a sermon by Greg Boyd last fall. The church he pastors is launching an online community for the next 6 weeks as an experiment during their series called Animate. I watched the first installation and it was powerful. Here is the information you will need to watch the first installation.
4/19/09: What a Surprise from WHChurch on Vimeo.
If you would like to join the group you can do so by going to
A group of us will be attending the 9am service at Fellowship Community church in liberty if you would like to join us in celebration on Sunday. CLICK HERE for directions, other service times, etc.
As we spend time celebrating the resurrection it reminds me of the heart and love that Jesus had for ALL of the people around Him. Paul sent me this video link that I would like to share with you all.
We will be meeting again at the Virtues this week for a time of worship and prayer by the fireplace in their downstairs. If you need directions, please email me or Paul
OK, so one of the issues that came up in our gathering this week was how we “do” life together. How much time do we spend hanging out with each other, sharing meals, etc. To some degree this has happened organically and as part of just the day to day needs we have and things going on between us. So you can imagine my interest when I found out that there are groups of folks doing this intentionally with no apparent affection for Jesus at all. I think that it is interesting to see how closely we are linked to others in the practical approaches to life. This premise is simple: times are tough, so sharing resources makes sense, and we desire to be connected to our neighbors, so living in community makes sense.
Take a look at this article which was featured on NPR yesterday:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102651496
We will be meeting at the Virtue’s House tonight for our Life Group Gathering. If you need directions, email David or Paul.
Hope to see everyone there!