Lost in Faith

For 50 plus years CityTeam has practiced “missional” Christianity.  From their early beginnings in San Jose to the urban environs of San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, and Philadelphia, CityTeam has incarnated the love of Christ among women and children living in poverty, addicts struggling with drug abuse, inner city youth and even to disaster relief. [...]

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At Shoal Creek (shoalcreek.org) we’ve taken a page from the CPM (church planting movements) folks around the world.  We developed a training session, Following Jesus where you Live, Work and Play.  We teach people how to start Discovery Groups.  A discovery based spiritual environment with a fixed methodology that focuses on obedience. The ask for [...]

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What begin as a simple message of obedience may have been complicated by well intentioned but misguided devotees. Without institutions to educate, denominations to ordain and publish, the followers of Jesus managed to rapidly multiply from a handful to millions 300 years later. It reminds me of golf.  I do a fair amount of golfing [...]

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Augustine of Hippo crosses many theological boundaries.  Calvinist consider him the father of the Reformation and Catholics and Anglican revere him as Doctor of the Church.  But his true gift to Christianity was inscribed by Jerome when he attributed to Augustine renewing the “ancient faith.” This ancient faith that Jerome referred to was a belief [...]

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In 1947 if you were given a decision that would shape the world, would you choose RDS-1  a bomb equal to 20 kilotons of TNT designed by Igor V. Kurchatov, lead physicist, of the Soviet nuclear weapons program OR a new light weight automatic weapon (AK-47 Automat Kalashnikov) designed by Mikhail Tomofeyevich Kalashnikov a Senior Sgt  in [...]

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