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It’s amazing to me how quickly we shift the news away from the incredible disaster in Haiti to way more important things… like whether or not CBS should air an ad from Focus on the Family. Seriously. This is obviously more important than 100k+ bodies laying in the streets around this earthquake ravaged country, or the countless more perhaps that may perhaps die in the coming weeks and months as already stressed sources of water run thin.

The call to missional worship

Do you want to know how to get church goers angry with you? Change something. Wanna see them get REALLY tee’d off?  Try changing the worship culture.

Hair dressers are a fantastic source of material for anybody looking for interesting topics about which to write, wouldn’t you agree? Regrettably, I have barely enough hair to warrant a monthly trip to the scissor queen or I’d gladly go more frequently just for the conversation. My stylist (can I have a “stylist” with this little crop?) is also a Christian… I didn’t plan it that way, she was a friend of my wife’s that I HAD to meet, so I tried her out… turns out she’s pretty danged skilled. Anyway… enough about that.

Oh mY! Often we wonder what our spiritual gifts are. Mark Driscoll has been posting a series of blogs about spiritual gifts and this week’s was one that got me going… it’s my gift!

In a spirited blog post, Geoff Surrat expresses concerns many of us are faced with as we deal with negative impressions of many.

It was at least five or six years ago when I first saw that monotone halo surrounding those curly locks on a mannequine at Urban Outfitters. “Jesus is my homeboy…” HA!  I laughed! My immediate reaction was… “yea… he’s definitely my homeboy too.”  Little did I know how radically diverse the reactions would be to this simple but powerful statement.

I’ve been talking about the concept of becoming a goer with a friend lately and have decided to put a few concepts in line prior to taking this to a larger audience. You, the faithful few who follow my blog will get to see it first.

I’ve been having some ongoing conversations with a buddy of mine centered on how we can reach the young people of our community. In so doing it is quickly becoming apparent that the way we’ve been trying to “do church” for so long is just not working any more. It’s time to start asking some new questions: