Food For Thought: Snowmaggedon Edition
Every week here at Pursuing Glory I try to bring together the best posts I’ve found that will equip the end-times church to operate in her God-ordained destiny. These are the best blogs, articles, books and other resources related to our purpose here at this site. Feel free to visit, comment, and make use of the resources found at each site.
This week finds me pretty much snowed in my house, with the news predicting 8 to 12 inches of snow. There are a lot worse things that could happen. I got to play with some of the most fun kids I know. There’s nothing quite like spontaneous, fun, free time with the family. If only I didn’t have to shovel first. And now, on to the links:
If We Have Been Raised With Christ
One of the traps we fall into frequently is letting the things of Jesus distract us from actually knowing and following Him. Quincy at Christ the Center takes a look at Paul’s instruction to the Colossians and how we can reclaim the wonder of simply knowing Christ.
One of the downfalls of making the transition into an organic church setting is that we can lose focus on our Master in the process. That’s why I love this post by Mercy and Wolfgang Simson at While We Slept. Being some of the original house church thinkers, they’re still finding themselves longing to know Jesus. I think you’ll enjoy this post.
This post by JD at Missiologically Thinking focuses on taking time to reflect on everything that you’re doing to increase Kingdom fruit. Getting this sort of macro-level thinking to happen frequently is important as we move forward in the days ahead.
Keith at Subversive1 shares about his journey into loving the poor more effectively. This is one area I think house churches are particularly well suited for.
Plant Churches Like a Missionary, Not a Pastor
One of the errors I see many rushing into is the tendency to think that just by planting a church, the lost will automatically get saved and discipled. Dave writes at the Resurgence about the need to be a missionary while planting a church, and not getting sucked into pastoring a group of only saved individuals.
Photo Credit: Design Probes – Food for Thought by centralasian.
How Much Input Do You Need?
If you’re not familiar with Seth Godin, he’s a blogger/entrepreneur/programmer/marketer/genius who daily challenges what you think about everything.
Seth, as far as I know, is not a believer in Jesus. But what he writes is brilliant and you would have to write off much of the book of Proverbs in order to not pay attention to what he writes. Often I take one of Seth’s business or marketing thoughts and apply it to my walk in the Kingdom. The parallels are uncanny.
Anyways, jump over today and read Seth’s short post entitled “In and Out.” It’s worth the read. Basically Seth asks the question: “How much information do you need before you begin to do revolutionary things?”
Let me rephrase it a little differently, in light of our shared Kingdom priorities:
How many healing conferences are you going to attend before you start to pray for people with cancer?
How many times will you read through the Bible before you start a 2 & 3 or LTG with someone?
How many books on evangelism will you read before you go and start talking to lost people?
Or, if you want to get personal about it: How many house church books and conferences am I going to go to before I start planting and multiplying house churches?
The thing is, in the West, we prefer to know everything and then obey a little. Jesus would prefer us to obey all of the little we know.
So here’s my impromptu exhortation to you today. In what area do you know way more than you should but are doing very little with the knowledge? Obviously we want to wait for God’s sending and there are character issues that need to be addressed. But is that what’s really holding you back?
Or is it fear?
Photo Credit: Seth Godin by Joi
The Wayback Machine: January
Some things just get better with age. “The Wayback Machine” posts occur at the end of every month and reference the best posts of that month in years past. My hope is to provide a good jumping on point for readers who have never been to Pursuing Glory.
2010
Why You Come To Pursuing Glory
This post was my 199th post. It was my attempt to sum up the reasons why people come and participate in this crazy blog and also articulate a little bit what the path forward looked like. If you’re wondering why you’re here or you have an interest in revival, apostolic ministry, the global house church movement, interecession, or our personal lives, you should check out this post to find out why you’re in the right spot.
2007
I wrote this blog because I was in a season of trying to plant a house church and was finding out very quickly not everyone was going to be as excited about it as I was. You also will get a good look at me wrestling with whether I wanted to bear the stigma of what was (and still is) part of belonging to a house church. The good news is the Lord is faithful and we’re still here.
Our House Church Came Together
This post came out of the very first gathering of our house church. We’ve grown a little numerically, we’ve grown a lot in community and in each other’s lives. This post ought to give you some great insight in where we started. It’s hard to believe it’s been four years.
Cluster Map
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