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Category Archives: religious innovation
Talk Church Is Better Than Talk Radio
Talk church is better than talk radio. Its talking points are about the living, resurrected Jesus Christ. Sit-back-and-listen-church makes people passive. Open line, talk church makes people powerful in God as they show and tell what God has done on … Continue reading
Posted in Berry Street, Berry Street Worship Center, church format, church history, church meetings, church program, church programs, church roles, church services, church structure, faith, faith in God, faith-based, great awakening, hearing God, hearing Jesus, hearing the Holy Spirit, improv, improvisation, Jesus Christ, John Miley, led by the Spirit, listening, Methodism, Methodist class meeting, Nashville adventure, Nashville church, Nashville tourist attractions, non-church, open church, participants, participators, participatory church, power, powerful, quote, Quotes, religious innovation, Salvation Army church, Salvation Army Corps, Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, Spirit-prompted, spiritual church, spiritual flow, spiritual formation, spiritual innovation, spirituality, The Salvation Army
Tagged church, Nashville, open line, open mike, organic church, quotations, religion, taling points, talk radio
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Liturgy & The Letter-G Word
Liturgy can present the letter-G word: God. However knowing God personally is much more than a word or a ritual. It requires direct encounter followed by daily surrender to and obedience to His will. Liturgy began as spiritual life, as … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, bowing, chanting, God, habit, knowing God personally, memory, relationship with God, religious academics, religious ceremonies, religious information, religious innovation, religious talks, religious tradition, revelation, revival, Scriptures, singing, the g-word
Tagged having a form of godliness, knowing God, liturgy, Paul of Tarsus, religion, rites, ritual
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Church gets exciting when God takes the reins and redirects routine religion!
Church becomes powerful when passive people become participatory and begin to passionately pursue and obey the prompting of the Holy Spirit! Church gets exciting when God takes the reins and redirects routine religion!
Posted in church buildings, church format, church meetings, church program, church programs, church roles, church services, church structure, God takes the reigns, religion, religious ceremonies, religious information, religious innovation, religious tradition, routine, routine religion, simple church
Tagged Christianity, church, church services, organic church
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Setting The Clock Back To Pentecost
We set our clocks back one hour last night. However, let’s don’t just turn the clock back one hour . . . Let’s go all out (whole hog) And turn it back about 1,975 years To another Pentecost – A … Continue reading
Posted in changing society, Christian, Christian values, Christianity, clocks, daylight savings time, great awakening, move of God, religion, religious innovation, revival, song, soul music, sound of, sound of God, spiritual fire, standard time
Tagged faith, Pentecost, Send the fire, setting the clock back, spring foward fall back, The Salvation Army, time change, William Booth
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Humorous Thought About The Cold & Flu Season
A funny thought (about the cold and flu season) came to my mind as I was driving into work: “When you have a runny nose, does it jog your memory? Does it remind you that the living God wants to … Continue reading
Believing Outside The Box — Creativity In Church
Thinking outside the box is a popular phrase. Taco Bell even played on it in their commercial by encouraging people to think outside the bun. Creative, out of the box thinking, has brought tremendous advancements to society. However one group … Continue reading
Posted in alternative church, alternative lifestyle, alternative names, biblical, biblical Christianity, Biblical concept, Christianity, established procedure, imagineering, innovation, Nashville, nonconforming, novel ideas, order of worship, ordinary, organic church, reinvent, reinventing, religion, religious innovation, Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, spiritual innovation, Taco Bell, Tennessee, The Salvation Army, think outside the bun, visionary, Walt Disney
Tagged church, color outside the lines, creativity, synonyms, think outside the box
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Spirit Ministry or Word Ministry?
Has Christian ministry lost it’s ability to grasp and transform people? It appears so. Churches are in decline. Our culture is almost completely secular, if not anti-Christian. Scholars have pronounced it to be post-Christian. However, although it appears that human … Continue reading
Posted in ministry, religion, religious academics, religious ceremonies, religious information, religious innovation, revelation, speech making, Spirit's flow, Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, spiritual battle, spiritual church, spiritual flow, spiritual growth, spiritual healing, spiritual innovation
Tagged 1 Corinthians 3, Christianity, God's glory, ministry, ministry of the Spirit, Paul, quenching the Spirit
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Holy Spirit Surfing–A Fresh Wave Of Churching
Holy Spirit surfing is a fresh, creative way of doing church — an innovative style of churching. However, it’s not new — it was written about in the New Testament (see 1 Corinthians 14:26) and was the common practice of … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Corinthians 14:26, church format, church meetings, church program, church roles, church structure, churching, contemporary churches, flow, flow of the Spirit, flowing of the Holy Spirit, hearing God, hearing Jesus, liturgical churches, morphed, move of God, movement, Music City, Nashville, new wave, non-liturgical, participatory church, praise and worship, presence of Christ, presence of God, prompted by the Spirit, prompting of the Spirit, Protestant, Quotations, quote, Quotes, religion, religious innovation, Spirit surfing, Spirit's flow, Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, Spirit-prompted, spiritual, spiritual waves, The Salvation Army, wave of the Spirit
Tagged Christianity, church, church history, creative church, organic church, Samuel Logan Brengle
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Spirit-Led Church — Makes You Want To Say: “Oh, My God!”
Church is not about what I want or what you want. Church is about what God wants! His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Church is not a place to sit and be told what … Continue reading
Posted in Acts, Acts 2:43, alternative church, alternative lifestyle, anointed, anointing, awe, Bible, Bible type revival, church meetings, church structure, everyone was filled with awe, fire, fire of the Holy Spirit, first century, First Century Church, freedom, Heaven, impact of church, jump up and shout, preaching, religion, religious innovation, revelation, Spirit's flow, spiritual flow, waves of the Spirit, what God wants, will be done on earth as it is in Heaven
Tagged 1st Century church, Christianity, God's will, Holy Spirit, Need to know, Oh my God, Spirit-led church
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