Did you hear about the man whose club gave him a medal for being the most humble man in the club but took it away because he wore it? We are sort of like that in the church.
- Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel, copyright 2004, Howard Books, page 224
Posts Tagged ‘Church’
We Are Sort of Like That in the Church
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Church on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What Has the Church Become?
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Church, Guilty, Preacher, Pulpit on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I fear too often the church has become an organization of guilty people with a guilty preacher standing in the pulpit, telling guilty people that they should be guiltier.
- Steve Brown, A Scandalous Freedom: The Radical Nature of the Gospel, copyright 2004, Howard Books, page 221
What Should Be The Material of Our Witness
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Church, Freedom, God, Joy, Witness on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We hear a lot of talk in the church about the importance of our witness to the world. Our witness is important – but God does not call us to witness about our goodness or that we have it all together. We are to witness regarding the freedom and joy we have found in Christ.
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What the Church Ought to Be
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Church, Freedom, Sins, Confess on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The church should be a place where we can say anything and know we won’t be kicked out, where we can confess our sins knowing others will help us, where we can disagree and still be friends. It ought to be the one place in the world where we don’t have to wear masks. And, [...]
Religion Can Make You Mean, Angry, Gloomy Critical, Judgmental and Neurotic.
Posted in Brown, Steve, tagged Chrisitian, Church, Freedom, Joy, Pagan, Religion, The Cross on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Religion can make people mean, angry, gloomy, critical, judgmental and neurotic. Religion can also become an abuser of Christians. I have seen so many people hurt by religion that I sometimes think it would be better to be a pagan.
Worst of all, religion can keep you from God. If it can become the substitute – [...]
The Gravest Question Before the Church and Man
Posted in Tozer, A.W., tagged Church, Worship on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us…Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what [...]
A Dramatic Expression of God’s Merciful Love
Posted in Manning, Brennan, tagged Church, Communion, Community, God's Love, Gospel, Jesus, Matthew 5, Mercy, Salvation, Sinners on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Through table fellowship Jesus ritually acted out His insight into Abba’s indiscriminate love – a love that cause His sun to rise on bad men as well as good, and His rain to fall on the honest and dishonest men alike (Matthew 5:45). The inclusion of sinners in the community of salvation, symbolized in table [...]
The Institutional Church Has Become a Wounder of the Healers
Posted in Manning, Brennan, tagged Christianity, Church, Gospel, Grace, Love, Self-Righteousness on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. The Christian community resembles a Wall Street exchange of works wherein the elite are honored and the ordinary ignored. Love is stifled, freedom shackled [...]
The Church is A Hospital for Sinners, not a Museum for Saints
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Bible, Church, Grace, Jesus' Death, Jesus' Resurrection, Salvation, Theology on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christian theology also speaks of the seriously flawed character of real Christians. A central message of the Bible is that we can only have a relationship with God by sheer grace. Our mortal efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation. Jesus, through his death and resurrection, has provided salvation for us, [...]
