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Evangelical churches have done better than mainline ones at combining authenticity and morality into tones the bobo can understand: chiefly, the use of self-help tactics and therapeutic language.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
As ministers, we can spend a lot of time teaching, debating and arguing the finer points of sexual ethics, from gay marriage to premarital sex to gender identity and more. But when someone comes to faith in Christ today, not only can we not assume they will want to follow a biblical moral code, many will have no idea there is one to follow.
They are
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Because a musical, cultural form that’s only about forty years old should not have more impact than the church, which has existed for thousands of years. We should be the main communicator about challenges that happen in our country on race and justice. We should be the first place that people look to for answers. We should be the ones presenting a
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Changing Zip Codes - Finding community wherever you're transplanted (Christian Devotions Ministries)
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three fairly broad AAs that I currently use: love for myself and others, connection, and showing up honestly.
Caren Albers • Happiness Junkie: A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life
We believe that we are dealing with an epidemic of faith formation because we’ve lost moral commitment, dropped prayer in school, declined in church attendance.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Poor people, queer people, Black people, unhoused people—especially the women and gender-nonconforming people among them—to varying degrees operate outside convention because convention has rejected us.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
Here’s an example of an elevator speech I’ve used: “Hi, I’m Angela Beeching; I run the Career Services Center at New England Conservatory of Music [1 and 2 above]. I just wanted to introduce myself because I heard your performance last month at the X club and I’m a big admirer of your work!” [The other person responds favorably, so I go on with:] “
... See moreAngela Myles Beeching • Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music
No person, whoever he or she is or wherever he or she lives, is denied the grasp of God’s heart. We are cherished by God, hunted by God, redeemed by God. And having experienced this, we are reminded that we are called to be bearers of God’s love and truth, and, as bearers, we are to bring that love and truth into our culture, where there exist the
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