[As you can see, this is a multi-post theme and you might find it helpful to begin at the beginning.] Those of you who have more brain cells than me might notice a discrepancy in the arithmetic above, yet I’ve got that covered in the “ish” part of the “6”. I always have more to …
Outer Circle Churches (Part 6 of 6ish)
[As you can see, this is a multi-post theme and if you might find it helpful to begin at the beginning.] If you were hoping I was winding down this topic, so so sorry, but some things have come to my attention since I started these rambling thoughts on how churches can and should be …
Outer Circle Churches (Part 5 of 6ish)
[As you can see, this is a multi-post theme and if you might find it helpful to begin at the beginning.] Here are three more things that distinguish an Outer Circle Church. An Outer Circle Church runs after the poor, not away from them. I have some urban missionary friends who recently moved their house …
Outer Circle Churches (Part 4 of 6ish)
[As you can see, this is a multi-post theme and if you might find it helpful to begin at the beginning.] An Outer Circle Church doesn’t so sanitize their church that the unsanitary feel unwanted and unwelcome. “People are dying in Africa because they don’t have the $3 mosquito nets that would prevent malaria, while …
Outer Circle Churches (Part 3 of 6ish)
[As you can see, this is a multi-post theme and if you might find it helpful to begin at the beginning.] An Outer Circle Church views the poor as people and don’t care that much about how they got that way. “Of all the preposterous things nothing exceeds the criticisms of the habits of the …
barney wiget 