A case in point of giving them enough rope.
"You know, I start reading this stuff that Jesus said.
And I'm just, like, 'Man, does anyone really believe this anymore?'"
"My goal is to destroy Christianity as a world religion"
“they like Jesus, but not the church”
“There is no acultural Gospel or Good News,
there is only Good News within a context.”
"I want a Christianity I can believe in - you know without the exclusivity of Christ."
"Pastors, if a businessman can explain the way that you financially run your church, then you probably aren't running it right."
Times like Easter and Christmas are dangerous for us because we begin to see them as something different from what they really are for the life of a community.
The first ever “emerging” Amish church will launch on December 23rd just outside of Columbus, Ohio. The church, calling itself “Solomon’s Barn” blends cutting edge worship with Amish sensibilities. Its pastor, Jacob Yoder (who prefers to be called “Jay”) believes that the Amish can learn from emerging styles of worship.
"Nadia Bolz-Weber
is a very lucky gal; she gets to be the pastor of
House for All Sinners and Saints
in Denver, Colorado – a very queer emerging church. She is the
author of Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian
Television (Seabury 2008) and of the Sarcastic Lutheran blog. Nobody
really believes she’s an ordained pastor in the ELCA. Maybe it’s the
sleeve tattoos or the fact that she swears like a truck driver. Either
way…she’s fine with it. Nadia lives in Denver with her family of 4 where
she can be found writing bios in the third person and chasing chickens
around the back yard with her kids."
"...it wasn't until the 300s that what we know as the sixty-six books of the Bible were actually agreed upon as the 'Bible'. This is part of the problem with continually insisting that one of the absolutes of the Christian faith must be a belief that "Scripture alone" is our guide."
Pastor Steven Furtick (above) of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, has announced a series of talks on leadership principles entitled “Purple People Leader.” Whatever can be said about these people, one thing is sure; they are worldly cool. The name is a take on the silly 1950s pop song “Purple People Eater.” Since it hit #1 on the Billboard chart in 1958, the song has sold one hundred million copies. It is about a “one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater” that comes to earth to play in a rock & roll band. Furtick says, “Rather than run from culture we have chosen to harness it...” (Elevation Church, “Basis Beliefs”).
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