Author | Vagabond Preacher | Lover of the Poor | Grandpa
“I grew up in a Candy Store Church where we consumed spiritual candy to obesity and competed with other churches of similar ilk. For sure, there were many things at my CSC that commended itself, but I found that we were only growing in girth and not so much in God. My fondness for sweets …
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We pour into our churches on Sundays, lock the doors, and sell candy to one another. The sugar high exhilarates but by the parking lot the high subsides to a low and the energy turns to lethargy. What’s worse is that our neighbors watch us come out looking more infirm than when we went in. …
A pastor friend of mine told me recently that a quarter of the congregation he serves left for more convenient environs when their services had to move to a different rented facility and change the time of their gatherings to the afternoon. I thought, “Is that all their church meant to them, a comfortable place …
[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 …
[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 …
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