Sublime

God brings growth, but organisation is our delegated role from Him to bring order.

the universe’s Creator was best understood through a human being who loved people and made friends, who ate meals and went to parties, who told jokes and cried when sad things happened, who built community, told stories, hated arrogance, welcomed losers and criminals and children, got betrayed, confronted hypocrites, healed sick people, forgave

without making ourselves miserable in the process through overload, overwhelm, and hard-to-keep-up systems.

This is what our covenant is—a commitment of mutual trust. Leaders “go first,” so if any leader will not serve humbly, he forfeits the expectation that a church member under his authority will submit joyfully. That member may submit under fear or coercion, but that is not the submission we’re after. Leaders must lead, not push. Leaders must serve,

(1 John 3:21–22). Are you keeping His commandments?

Peace, Walter Brueggemann

A few years ago, I came across a collective of thousands of Christians who pool their money each month in order to cover one another’s medical bills. This feels much more in harmony with the spirit of the early church, the sense of being a big family with a parent with a big wallet. So I am now a part of that community, and each month I get a

The need of the hour, Paul said to the Corinthians, was that they did not have many fathers (1 Corinthians 4v15).

Most missions leaders define a people group as “reached” when there is an indigenous church able to evangelize the group. This is because the New Testament clearly teaches that a people must continue to be evangelized once the missions task is complete.