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The Jonesville (SC) Church of God and its pastor are making a stir with their latest sign out in front of the church: Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God. It reads: "Obama, …
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Travis Johnson's proposal concerning the election of state Administrative Bishops in the Church of God is an interesting one. From its start the Church of God has appointed its state and regional (diocesan, for you Anglicans and Roman Catholics) prelates centrally at the biennial General Assembly. It's easy to draw from this (and current Roman …
It's inevitable that George Barna would chime in on the subject of the tithe: "Born again adults remain the most generous givers in a country acknowledged to be the most generous on the planet," said the veteran researcher. "But their donation decisions must be seen in the larger context of the changes occurring in a …
Johnathan Stone has picked another hot topic on buildings and churches. We see so many churches putting so much of their resources into physical plant these days, only to struggle with payments. My response from a business standpoint is as follows: You sure know how to pick sore subjects! For me, this is high on …
Abu Daoud, in his reflections on Pope Paul VI's encyclical Evangelii Nuntiandi, makes the following observations: The name of this strategy that I have heard is "training the trainer," though though are other names. The traditional model in missions was to send out a pastor-missioner or a group of missionaries who would start a church …
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I've commented once on Jonathan Stone's my struggle with homosexuality. But some of the subsequent comments--and Tanya's last one in particular--beg some response. It's rather like the geotechical engineer and contractor Lazarus White's reaction to certain technical papers on pile driving: after reading them, "the result was that my sleep was very much disturbed." Let …
Jonathan Stone knows how to select a hot topic in his post my struggle with homosexuality. For you Anglicans that visit regularly, you know I deal with this on a regular basis, and many of the Anglican/Episcopal blogs and websites do so even more. The premier Anglican (IMHO) blog, Titusonenine, does so regularly, but will …
Rising from the dead was not an ordinary occurrence before or during Jesus time on the earth; it is still not. In order to accomplish such a thing, it takes power, lots of it. Jesus Christ was able to rise from the dead because, being God, he had the power within him to do so. …
MissionalCOG has posted a video clip from a recent conference for emerging leaders by Dr. Raymond Culpepper, First Assistant General Overseer of the Church of God. I think that Dr. Culpepper is absolutely correct. Hopefully Leonard Sweet (whom he quotes) will touch on issues like this when he comes to the General Assembly in August. …
Steve Wright has posed an interesting question on MissionalCOG: can the "haves" and "have-nots" get together at church? And, of more import to him, can they do so at his new church? IMHO, the class stratification of American Protestant and Evangelical Christianity is one of the sorriest aspects of what has been otherwise represented as …
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