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Why are the places and groups I’ve experienced that were the most like the CHURCH that I see in the Bible adamant about saying “We are not a church!” and the churches that I’ve been to that say “Come to church” aren’t anything like what I see in the Bible? Why is this basic unit of Christian people such a hard thing to pin down, and why is it so warped today? I’m going to focus on what really stands out in a few groups I’ve been in that made it more like what the Bible says than what people say. Community One element is a sense of community. There is a difference between hanging out for the sake of the Lord and having a bunch of activities. Times that I’d say I experienced real church would be the times that people came together often with no agenda or goal, but only to be together and as a result talk about Jesus. When Jesus...
I wrote a little tip on freeing up your life by controlling your smartphone over on my business blog. Check it out. It is good for your whole...
This past week there were 20 kids shot in a school, and I think 8 teachers. It was the second worst mass shooting incident in the US. I looked up on youtube and saw a couple videos of the type of gun the guy used. It’s pretty horrible. You no longer think that Afghanistan and Libya are full of a bunch of violent nuts once you see what we legally and actively sell to normal people in the United States. One article I read said they even sold them in pink for breast cancer awareness month. Pink machine guns. This shooting is horrible and people are arguing all over the place about the many facets of it. Not an afternoon had passed when someone asked me “Why would God allow this?” One thing I thought of last night, though, was something I haven’t heard anyone talk about. I want to be sensitive, because I think about this and it makes me remarkably sad, and I understand you might just be...
In 2007, my family and I returned from a long trek in Central Asia. With lots of uncertainty, we left & gave away our Dodge Caravan to some friends there. We trusted God to provide for us stateside. We came to our temporary apartment from the airport in Evansville and there on the dining room table was the title to a Ford Aerostar! Crossroads and Evansville Auto Mission had provided us with a van! We could see God’s obvious hand in moving us to trust Him and give away our van in Asia. Today, 5 years later, I returned the van to the Auto Mission. It served us well most of the time, brought an element of adventure to every drive (even just driving to church on Sunday!) and kept us from a car payment for the past 5 years. Thanks to the Lord & His people for this chapter of the Sullivan’s transportation. I’m not sure we’ll miss it, but I’m thankful for...