As First Christian plans its future, a constant among the plans is to leave some money aside for to plant new churches. Both the Senior Pastor and I have made this a priority in what ever decisions are made. That has been met with some resistance. One person wondered why we weren't spending some of... Continue Reading →
Children of the Heavenly Father
Yesterday at church, we had a service of lamentation. Two years prior, on August 29, 2008, First Christian Church sold its building the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The congregation, which had went from the owning a building that was completed in 1954, to now being tenants. The hope of the service was to help people... Continue Reading →
The Gift of Failure
It's been a few years since I ended the ministry of Community of Grace Christian Church. For those not in the know, I helped launch a new church back in 2004. It had a shaky start, and then pretty much went downhill from there. Long story short, it was a failed church start. By 2007,... Continue Reading →
The End of the Big Blue Church
Walter Russell Mead is a writer that mainly focuses on politics. However, in today's blog post, he focuses on the church or I should say specifically the mainline Protestant church. His post, which is wonderously titled, "The Holy Crap Must Go," is basically saying that it is time for a spring cleaning in the church.... Continue Reading →