Wow, I haven’t posted here in a long time. I used to get really annoyed with bloggers who don’t post for months at a time but I now realize why it happens…you are too insanely busy to do one more thing. But, as my kids are playing with their train this morning, I have a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Church Planting’
April 30, 2010
Outreach–Can We Get a Better Word?
Let me start off by saying that the word “outreach” really, really bothers me, especially when it is used in the church context. The reason it bothers me is because it implies that us Christians, who are “in” have the duty to reach “out” to all those dirty sinners and help them. It never really [...]
March 22, 2010
Houston, we may have community
We had our 2nd Sanctuary get together last night and it was incredible! It is amazing the diverse group of people that God has brought together from different areas, backgrounds and cultures who all share one thing in common: an overwhelming desire to experience the true, pure Christianity of the New Testament. God is definitely [...]
March 20, 2010
I’m Tired of the Show
If you ever want to experience the greatest stress imaginable, plant a church! We are only in the very beginning phases of our 1st meetings, planning, etc but it is literally the ONLY thing that I can think about. The mental and spiritual stress that we have experienced has put a strain on my marriage, [...]
March 16, 2010
Church is not the Goal
I have been re-reading “The Tangible Kingdom” over the last few days and it has really been messing me up big time. I read it about 2 years ago and really liked it but now that we’ve actually moved ahead with this church plant and are “doing it”, I’m really beginning to evaluate what “church” [...]
January 2, 2010
The “New” Traditional Church
I just read this post by Tony Morgan on how the “contemporary” church has become the new traditional church but our much heralded methods/models aren’t really producing the results that we hoped. His thoughts for what is necessary for “church” line up exactly where I think God is leading us. Check it out here.
December 16, 2009
Sanctuary Church- A Place of Risk!
After a lot of prayer and tossing names around, Paige and I settled on “Sanctuary Church” for the church that we are in the midst of planting. As we have begun to tell people about the church, some have asked how we came up with the name, which is a good question. So, here it [...]
November 22, 2009
Our First Gathering
I know I’m about a week late on this post but I just wanted to let everyone know that we had our first Sanctuary Church get together and it was AWESOME! Last Sunday night, Paige, myself and about 8 others gathered in our living room and ate some good food, talked about what God was [...]
November 10, 2009
Hills We Will Die On!
I was talking to a pastor that I highly respect the other day about the church we are planting and he said something that I have been thinking about ever since. We were talking about keeping things simple and not deviating from the core values that God has given us and he said “there are [...]
