Okay, I confess to a quasi-obsession with this topic which has taken me a lot longer than I expected to unpack. I can’t seem to get out of my craw that we’re strangers following a Stranger here with a strange message in a strange land among strange people who think we’re strange. I can’t stop musing …
How do we get “prosperity” (shalom)?
To refresh our memories, God deported the Jews to Babylon for a lifetime (70 years). This prosperity preacher’s opus (Jeremiah 29:11) is part (only part) of the letter to the exiles that he inspired Jeremiah to write. If you’ll look at the entire letter you’ll see that just four verses before he commanded them to: …
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 …