This is a difficult passage to read in an age of consumerism. Too much of the modern church is focused on: finding a need and filling it, it’s all about me, I need to be fed, served, catered to, made to feel good.
Jesus missed the “how to market your church” seminar
Before taking this new job at Fuller, I was a pastor of a fantastic church for 23 years. That congregation wonderful as it was, was full of humans, which meant sometimes I was disappointed, hurt, angry, annoyed. Eugene Peterson defines the church as one part mystery and one part messy. That makes alot of […]
There is a low-grade fever affecting many pastors and churches. Most of the time, we don’t acknowledge it. In fact we often just try to ignore it. It is simply a low-grade fever. But it is a persistent fever. And it won’t go away.
The fever is this underlying sense that church as it […]
