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We are called to create a culture of sharing both in and outside the church. (click for image source)

Embodying Our Faith: Creating A Culture of Sharing

By Brian Boitmann on 02/04/2012

In a culture where a person’s success is determined more often by the the things that we have, and the amount of each of them that we have, establishing a culture of sharing turns that entire notion on its head…

Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Features | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, christian community, Church Life, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture of sharing, ekklesia, embodying our faith, generosity, God's Economy, hospitality, Jesus, kingdom living, kingdom of GOD, materialism, sharing | Leave a response

The Holy Spirit and the Big Red Tractor

The Holy Spirit and the Big Red Tractor

By Jason Fowler on 04/16/2010

A parable about a village, their beloved tractor and one farmer’s breakthrough. Story by Francis Chan to illustrate the current condition of the Church for his book ‘Forgotten GOD’…

Posted in Videos | Tagged Church Life, Forgotten GOD book, Francis Chan, parable, Spirit-filled living, The Big Red Tractor, the Holy Spirit | Leave a response

Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities (free e-book)

Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities [Book Review]

By Jason Fowler on 02/12/2010

It is a quiet but revolutionary cultural critique that calls the church to abandon Western individualism and renew our call to be the Body of Jesus- connected in proximity, together pursuing the purposes of GOD.

Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book review, Chris Smith, Church Life, Community and Ecclesia, individualism, Intentional Christian Community, isolation, Jesus, missional living, Modern culture, radical discipleship, shalom, The Englewood Review of Books, Whole-life Christian faith, worldviews | 2 Responses

Jesus came to heal our broken hearts (montage by J Fowler)

Why the Church is Full of Sickies

By Scott Bessenecker on 01/26/2010

What is missing from the Church sometimes is our ability to admit that we are all broken beggars clinging to a mysterious Savior whom we understand imperfectly and follow even less perfectly.

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