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What is the Church?

Here’s some Q&A from the LEAD ‘09 conference regarding the Church. All video and audio is now up!

Here is helpful definition of the local church from Mark Driscoll from Vintage Church:
The local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord. In obedience to Scripture they organize under qualified leadership, […]

Fight Clubs Book Released!

My first book, Fight Clubs: Gospel-centered Discipleship, is now available free online and by print-on-demand. This book has been a process. My adult years as a struggling disciple of Jesus have shaped this book. From my failures in college to my successes in ministry, following Jesus has been both difficult and rewarding. Sufferings, temptations, and […]

What do cubicles, tobacco farming, and the church have in common?
By 2000, forty million American white-collar employees were using the cubicle. What began as a customizable work environment eventually turned into an urban dungeon. Cutting us off from contact with the real world, the cubicle is scorned for suffocating productivity and community. Attempts to […]

Communities of Performance or Grace?

Tim Chester offers a great diagnostic list to determine whether our communities are communities of performance or grace:

Communities of Performance
Communities of Grace

the leaders appear sorted
the leaders are vulnerable

the community appears respectable
the community is messy

meetings must be a polished performance
meetings are just one part of community life

identity is found in ministry
identity is found in Christ

failure is […]

ALL Total Church Audio is up

All Total Church Conference Audio is up