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What If Christianity Isn’t about Me?
We keep ourselves honest by examining the lens through which we see the world. If our lens is dirty or discolored, our ability to accurately examine the world is in jeopardy. The only chance we have at...
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What If the Scriptures Aren’t about Me?
In a recent post about the communal nature of Christianity, I discussed the individualism that’s poisoning the church. Even the way we interact with the Scriptures is often colored by our “me” oriented...
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Your Way, Right Away: The High Cost of Entitlement
The “it’s all about me” mentality is hard to fight in a society like ours. We’re inundated daily with jargon, slogans, advertisements, spiritual, and philosophical statements confirming this mindset....
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The Importance of Creating Space
“When you harvest the crops of your land, do not harvest the grain along the edges of your fields, and do not pick up what the harvesters drop. Leave it for the poor and the foreigners living among...
View ArticleIs Christian Community a Fairy Tale?
It’s no secret that people have been hurt by the church. After all, the church is made entirely of faulty, broken people. There’s no way that it can’t be doing some damage. But there are areas where...
View ArticleGossip: Why We Do It and How We Can Stop
It’s amazing how often and how forcefully the Bible discusses the issue of gossip. But, like greed, we tend to shrug off its importance to focus on more sensational and salacious sins. But you begin to...
View ArticleNo One Asked You to Sheriff Social Media
We really shouldn’t be talking about community if we’re not advocates for reckless transparency—and we shouldn’t be imagining that’s what we are if people need to be on eggshells around us. The...
View Article5 Reasons I Won’t Give Up on the Local Church
The early 90s were awash in books explaining why Generation X was abandoning the church. In a similar vein, there’s been no shortage of blog posts, books, and conferences about how Millennials are...
View Article8 Signs of Unhealthy Christian Groupthink
Have you ever listened to a conversation in your small group or Bible study and knew that you should keep your opinion to yourself? Maybe the topic revolved around a social problem or political...
View ArticleThe Problems with Christian Accountability
In nearly thirty years in evangelicalism, I’ve heard a lot of talk about Christian community. And I’ve often wondered if the community I’d heard about was a fairy tale because it always seemed to be a...
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