1. Could your church survive if there were no sermons?
Donald Miller poses this question, then offers some answers.
If a church decided to go a period of time without a sermon, a Sunday school teaching or a seminar or “traditional” Bible teaching of any kind (sitting down to study the book in a classroom style) how would you teach people about God and how would you teach them right theology?
Read the whole article.
2. Need more reasons to watch less TV?
Here are ten. See Joshua Becker’s article at “Becoming Minimalist.”
- It is influencing your worldview.
- It is influencing your spending habits.
- It is taking you away from the real people all around you.
- It is robbing you of precious mental energy.
- It is costing you money.
- It impairs your capacity for rational thought.
- It is bad for your health.
- It results in less satisfaction with life.
- It results in less sex.
- Its opportunity cost is too great.
3. Can you be ordinary?
Until we are content with being one of the million nameless, faceless church members and not the next globe-trotting rock star, we aren’t ready to be a part of the church.
In the grand scheme of things, most of us are going to be more of an Ampliatus (Rom. 16:8) or Phlegon (v. 14) than an apostle Paul. And maybe that’s why so many Christians are getting tired of the church.
We haven’t learned how to be part of the crowd. We haven’t learned to be ordinary.
So says Kevin DeYoung at Ligonier Ministries, “The Glory of Plodding.”
4. If there’s no quality
If you’re not really saying anything, Seth Godin suggests:
Write nothing instead. It’s shorter.
But he is saying more.
5. For all you minivan families out there
From the Sienna Family
3 comments:
#1 My church would be better off without sermons. Or at least, this member would be.
Ya know.... My foot is feeling kinda numb from being stepped on so much by that post. Many good thoughts there.
And as for that last one... I have one of those now! But I am nowhere near as "cool." LOL
I loved the Donald Miller article-especially the idea of inviting a bunch of nonchristians to church without trying to convert them. Instead, just letting them ask questions and getting to know them as people. Good stuff!
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