Sunday, February 19, 2006

When the power goes out

CMS frequently has food for thought, but the 2/16 post about examining what’s really at the heart of your church service is especially good. I quote…

“If the electricity went out, and your walls fell down, and your biggest givers died, what would you have left? Would you have a community of people still seeking after the heart of God?”

If you’ve ever asked, “what makes church work?,” read the whole article. There’s some interesting stuff in the comments that follow, too.

Let me know if you can read the whole thing without squirming at least a little, some where. I can’t.

Posted by Jana on 02/19 at 08:47 PM
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Somebody say "ouch!"

"Christians are walking billboards for the church, and too often it’s a case of false advertising. Church marketing sucks, but so do we. We’re a sinful and broken people, but half the time we can’t admit it. We put on an air of perfection, forgetting that in our brokenness we are complete. The church is for the broken, not the perfect.”

- by Kevin D. Hendricks; August 5, 2004; @ Church Marketing Sucks [sorry, but that’s what it’s called!]

Posted by Jana on 01/26 at 06:25 PM
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Saturday, January 14, 2006

C.S. Lewis on true pleasure

"Milton, Johnson and Thomas Aquinas [took] heavenly glory quite frankly in the sense of fame or good report… not fame conferred by our fellow creatures —- fame w/ God, approval or… ‘appreciation’ by God…. ‘Well done, thou good faithful servant.’… When the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please…. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of…self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment [will heal] her old inferiority complex for ever…. If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.”

Posted by Jana on 01/14 at 06:00 PM
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