Great thoughts from Leland Yialelis. Christianity is the only one of the world’s great religions where the primary focus is forming communities where every person is an agent of loving kindness. Christianity’s primary focus is the “one another.” Christianity was designed to be a religion without rituals, a religion without sacred places, sacred spaces, a […]
Before Buff Scott, Jr. left Cherokee, Iowa for Phoenix he took out an ad in the local newspaper. Published in 1988, his words still ring true today. INTRODUCTION The story has been told that American missionaries, upon reaching foreign soil, are confronted with barriers such as: “If you have come here to unite us, go […]
Highway of our God by Catherine Booth, page 61-63, published by The Salvation Army Supplies And Purchasing Department, Atlanta, Georgia, 1986. Catherine Booth 1829-1890. While the gospel message is laid down with unerring exactness, we are left at perfect freedom to adapt our measures and modes of bringing it to bear upon men to the […]
The following was recently written by my good friend Buff Scott, Jr. To find out more about Buff click here. It might surprise some of you that Ambassador Paul was a zealous partisan, a Pharisee, before he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. (See Acts 26:5.) He abandoned this separatist religion to live for […]
I haven’t watched the news since September 10th. This is a big deal for me since I considered myself a news junkie. However, I found myself hating people I didn’t know, getting angry at people whom I’ve never met and wanting justice for people who’ve not done me any personal harm. Last week at our […]
I wanted to share this beautiful message written by my good friend Fernando Souza. You can find out more about Fernando by clicking here. The wall is filled with colorful little hands, with people who have giant heads on stick-figure bodies, with the sun that always lives in the upper corner of the page. This […]
Thoughts from my good friend Fernando Krusher Souza. Fernando can be contacted through email: aigrejaembauru@gmail.com. Sunday afternoon. The house is quiet now, filled with that nice silence that comes after a good party. I still have a smile on my face and a warm heart from what happened last night. I got home, tired from the […]
Written by Roger Thoman from SimpleChurch Journal. Check out his website simplechurchjournal.com Church is people. Living for God is lifestyle. This is the simplicity of being ekkesia: followers of Jesus. Traditional church has focused on programs, pulpit teaching, and Sunday performances. It is a religious system rather than a spiritual ecosystem. And systems, by nature, […]
The below article was written by Buff Scott, Jr. You can contact Buff and sign up for his Reformation Rumblings newsletter by emailing him at renewal@mindspring.com. The universal biblical principle, found throughout, is that in the assemblies of the early saints all gifts were shared mutually. The “hired hand” today interferes with and disrupts this […]
