Earlier this week Glenn Beck made waves by urging Christians to leave any church that supports social justice. Promptly after he made these statements, prominent Christians all over the country reacted negatively and started to urge their followers to boycott Beck. While I understand the reaction, I’m wondering if it was the correct one. After [...]
Recently I’ve been thinking about the development of the church in terms of open source. Initially the two seem to be polar opposites, church and software development, but the more I’ve thought about it the more it makes sense.
Coming into our first home study day we had very little idea what to expect. We knew that there would be lots of personal questions, but that’s about the extent of it. Well it turned out that we were right about the personal questions, though we were unaware of just how personal the questions would [...]
There are those who would like to say that Christianity is easy. Receive Jesus into your heart and you will be saved! That’s it all that is required to be a Christian. There is very little indication that life change is required, that there is supposed to be a peculiar aspect to the followers of [...]