Sublime

What are you doing personally to make your church family more warm and loving?

It is critical that we assess why we are engaging with the dechurched. It cannot be for any reason apart from sincere affection for them that flows out of a genuine love of God. We should be careful to avoid motivations of spiritual pride, success, and praise from others.

Through epiphany, they followed the way of the cross and did the most profound thing that can be done in a world that inflates the self by driving for singularity: they saw and named the personhood of each other. They attended to the other as an epiphany that included their own creativity, not for the sake of performance but for the sake of being p

When you base your worth and identity on your relationship to Christ, you are freed from the expectations of others, and that allows you to really serve them best.

“Emphasizing the scriptural ideals of love and community through service to the homeless, our Campus provides faithful people of Nashville an opportunity to respond directly to the broken and the disenfranchised among us. The fellowship with the poor is at the heart of our purpose.” What that means is that I am the person the Campus is serving. Par

The keys to addressing the Great Dechurching will be whether churchgoing people will be willing to seek understanding, relate with wisdom, build healthier institutions, embrace our exilic nature, and seek a gospel that is true, good, and beautiful.