The Warrenite experience…

Okay, we’re a church looking at “emergent youth” today.  Wonder what the focus will be tomorrow.  We just went through a series in Jude, and I noticed much talk was given to “scoffers” and those who we should watch out for.  I just wonder why we’re doing this.   It’s true, we do need to contend [...]

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Interesting Resource

http://cicministry.org/articles.php

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On Living in a Church Focusing on Emergent Youth (5)

I have realized that the Rick Warrenites don’t necessarily identify themselves as emergent or emerging, they don’t like labels.  However, they are quick to point out labels of others.  I’ve read it, but not yet heard it openly in my church.  Those who oppose are called “wolves.”  I guess I am what Warrenites would call [...]

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On Living in a Church Focusing on Emergent Youth (4)

Whew.  So my children, three of them, heard the teacher say “be still and sit very quietly and think of all the good things God has given you.”  They all claim they were asked to shut their eyes, that this was read off a paper.  They also said it went on for five minutes at [...]

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On Living in a Church Focusing on Emergent Youth (3)

I wrote this elsewhere, but wanted to give more of a picture of what happened today in church.

I was quite upset today when the pastor talked about contending for the faith from Jude and then said, “but don’t be Bible police” and said it was for a community to contend, not the individual. What does [...]

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On Living in a Church Focusing on Emergent Youth (2)

Sadly, I did not record this in my live journal when it happened, but our pastor did pray a very strange way once.  He had us pretend to hold onto our burdens (or was it distractions?) tightly.  We were then to release them at a certain point in the prayer, actually physically do it.  I [...]

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On Living in a Church focusing on Emergent Youth

Oh, it’s been an interesting past few weeks.  A friend of mine reads my live journal, one of the only people in my life who knows about it.  I’ve left it open to her on purpose so she can decide to read or not.  Her life is full of problems right now, and introducing her [...]

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Lessons on Prayer

I have this fear that my church is going to be bringing contemplative prayer to my kids, and may have already.  I found a resource that has six lessons on prayer online, and so far I am pleased.  Our church used to use a resource like this, I recall teaching it.  However, everything they are [...]

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Saddleback and a meeting…

http://www.soulforce.org/article/1341
 
The link speaks for itself.

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Signs of the end?

I wish I had a connections here…of many people who could share their thoughts on the current signs of the end.  Since this account is new for me, I am in a place of thinking almost exclusively to myself.  At any rate, I do think there are signs of, if not the end, an impending time [...]

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