Dissident or Supporter? The Christian and his or her relationship to the governing authorities…

In Romans 13.1-5 Paul writes, Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. 2Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3For rulers are not a terror to

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Book Review: The Vertical Self by Mark Sayers

Where does our identity come from? How is it formed? These are questions that each of us wrestles with.  Some derive their identity through the organizations to which they belong, the jobs that they perform, the titles which they hold, and the relationships of which they are a part.  Mark Sayers, in his book The

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The denomination’s new clothes: Is our missional language simply a trendy alternative to the church growth rhetoric?

A little more than five years ago, I remember sitting in a meeting with my then district superintendent in which I was encouraged to sit down with my local board of administration and draft mission and vision statements so that we could break the one hundred and fifty person barrier to become a model of

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The prophet: the man or woman of the moment

No prophet ever sees things under the aspect of eternity.  It is always partisan theology, always for the moment, always for the concrete community, satisfied to see only a piece of it all and to speak out that at the risk of contradicting the rest of it.  Empires prefer reasoned voices who see it all,

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