James Nored's Blog – June 2011 Archive (10)

Can and should the Restoration Movement be saved?

I n his recent book, The End of Evangelicalism? Towards A New Faithfulness for Mission, David Fitch talks about three of the main tenets of evangelicalism:

  1. The inerrancy of…
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Added by James Nored on June 23, 2011 at 10:30am — 5 Comments

How can we help teens who struggle with homosexuality?

Below is a news article from IPI, a policy think tank where my friend Bart Cleland works (whatever your politics, this article brings up some of the issues of concern.) As this article shows, the government "came out" for LGBT youth--lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth. CNN also posted an article this week on this coverage entitled,…

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Added by James Nored on June 14, 2011 at 3:30pm — 22 Comments

Church buys apartment complex for missional ministry approach

I found this article today entitled, Church buys apartment complex for intentional ministry. It is about a church in Greenville, NC, that had maxed out its 7 acre campus and its two worship services and three Sunday school. They still had significant building, so building a whole new campus someplace…

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Added by James Nored on June 14, 2011 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

US Representative Anthony Weiner and Online Redemption

Unless you have been in a cave, you have heard that New York US Rep. Anthony Weiner, after a week of denial, confessed in a press conference that he had sent naked pictures of himself and engaged in online sex talk with about six women. 

 

The details of this story--and the pictures--have started to come out, and they are, well, unspeakable. Why…

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Added by James Nored on June 9, 2011 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Breaking the 200--I mean 150--barrier in churches

There are whole books and seminars given on how to break the "200 barrier" in church attendance. I'm not necessarily impressed with making attendance the goal. I would prefer for churches to look at missional markers such as the number of people baptized, the number of people served in the community (whether people fed and clothed or people helped in marriage, etc.), or the…

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Added by James Nored on June 8, 2011 at 12:30pm — 5 Comments

Telling the Story of Redemption in Today's Unchurched, Postmodern World

In 1979, Francois Lyotard wrote The Postmodern Condition, in which he recognized this seismic change that was sweeping across culture and philosophy. The postmodern condition “pertains to one’s awareness of the deconstructibility of all systems of meaning and truth.”[1] Postmodernism is a condition rather than a singular definition, for every system of meaning…

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Added by James Nored on June 7, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

"Born to Buy": The Commercialized Child - How Companies Are Inappropriately Marketing to Children

Born to Buy is a throughly researched book on how corporations are marketing to young children in often harmful and shocking ways. Companies have found that the most effective way to get families to buy things is to bypass…

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Added by James Nored on June 3, 2011 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Are people more likely to serve others in a small group or on their own?

I am a big proponent of people being a light to the world in their individual, daily lives. One of the reasons for this is that people spend so much of their time out on their own. If we take people's daily lives out of the missional sphere, we have made the majority of their lives secular and missionless. And the fact is, that some people truly do have work travel schedules…

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Added by James Nored on June 2, 2011 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

The Gospel Spreads through Social Networking - Lessons from Jesus & the Early Church

I am not opposed to "advertising" for the church, particularly if it is tied to offering to meet a felt need in the community. But the most powerful form of "advertising" is the sharing of the gospel person to person through social networking. Today, obviously, we have tremendous online social networking tools (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) that we need to utilize to reach the lost. But even without these tools, the early church grew from a small band of disciples in the first century…

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Added by James Nored on June 1, 2011 at 1:00pm — 2 Comments

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