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Category Archives: passivity
Passionized or pacified?
Christianity should activate people with fire in their soul. Instead it too often seems to pacify them rather than passionizing them. If Christ is dead, a church meeting following Him leads to anarchy. If Christ is alive, following Him leads … Continue reading
Posted in authority, CEO, honky tonks, Jesus CEO, memory, nontraditional, passivity, security, spirit, spiritual authority, spiritual enemies, spiritual experiences, spiritual healing, spiritual hunger, spiritual listening, spiritual maturity, spiritual passion, spiritual presence, spiritual prompting, spiritual reading, spiritual reality, spiritual themes, spiritual voices, spiritualism, tradition, Uncategorized
Tagged 12 steps, anarchy, passion, seance, spiritual, spiritualists, spirituality, supernatural
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What usually happens when Christians meet?
Here are three ways of doing church: 1) Lecture: Let me tell you what I know. 2) Facilitation: Let me fish out what a few other people know. And 3) Ekklesia: Let’s go beyond what we know & let the risen … Continue reading
Posted in a new reformation, church order, church program, church programming, liturgy, oratory, order of worship, passivity, priesthood of the believer, pulpit, pulpit ministry, reformation, spectators, Uncategorized, universal priesthood
Tagged Christian meetings, Christianity, church, lecture, meetings, preaching, sermons, worship
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Church — An Alternative Lifestyle To Popular Culture . . . Not A Religious Talk
A church meeting is supposed to be the prototype of an alternative lifestyle to popular culture, an actual demonstration of the values of the Kingdom of God, equipping people to live life like lights in the darkness–a spiritual support-group for … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Corinthians 14:26, 1 Corinthians:14, communion, community, Jim Van Yperen, monologue, organic church, passivity, pastor, prototype, pulpit ministry, quotation, Quotations, Quotes, simple church, spiritual, support group
Tagged alternative lifestyle, church, kingdom of God, lecture, popular culture, quote
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Realty TV / Reality Church . . .
Reality church? We have reality TV that features ordinary people. So, why not reality church, where everyday people show and tell why God has done? When church is scripted, the freedom to flow in the Spirit is restricted to the … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Corinthians 14:26, Andy Chamberlain, C. Wess Daniels, Constance M. Cherry, experiential worship, Fuller Seminary, Music City, Nashville, new kind of church, New Testament, open church, open mike, open sharing, order of worship, participation, participation in church, participatory culture, participatory sermons, passivity, pastor, popular culture, quotation, quote, Quotes, religious innovation, Ryan Bolger, Ryan Flanigan, Salvation Army, Salvation Army church, Salvation Army Corps, television, TV, TV network, William Willimon, worship, worship center, worship gathering
Tagged Christianity, church, culture, quotations, reality TV, religion
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Creative Texting Ideas
Here’s a great texting idea. Text this: U R needed to actively participate in chURch. Or this: When the preacher is the only one allowed to speak out in church, u r left out, so perhaps we should spell one-speaker … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, church, church services, ch__ch, creative texting, participants, participation, participators, participatory church, passivity, preacher, preaching, religiious texting, religion, spectators, texting ideas, texting in church, u r, What's missing in ch__ch? u r
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Humans Must Compete To Be Complete
We incomplete humans must compete to be complete. We have to compete with the gang of 4 — complacency, mediocrity, passivity, and apathy. These 4 want us to give up before we even get started on our way to … Continue reading
Posted in advocate, apathy, attitude, competition, complacency, conformity, gang of, genes, mediocrity, passivity, spiritual darkness
Tagged coaching, personal growth, personal transformation, self-help, spiritual formation
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Could a sleeping church fall into a sinkhole?
Is the church Asleep on a mattress Over crumbling earth That’s about to collapse Into a huge sinkhole?