The Grace Project

1. These men are not drunk as you suppose
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... the corporation's current affairs output I'm left pondering our institutional-church blindness.     It is not Dawkins' genius that has made philosophy so "utterly dominant that ...

2. I'm Praying, for a change
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... that his church has been praying for him.   Now I believe in prayer and in the power of prayer but what leaves me nonplussed is my friend’s deduction that God blessed him because the church ...

3. He leads Me...
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... true of ministry.  In fact most of what we call church makes it impossible to be a Christian.  To quote Drucker once more, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should ...

4. Leadership Matters - Finding Our Voice
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... church.   So what are we looking for if the emerging church is not to become just another emerging church is men and women who are Good Shepherds. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. ...

5. Growing Good Grass
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... but unfortunately we so often end up serving them.  Now the question is how do you keep the grass green?   Or to put it another way, how do you keep the ‘church’ out of the church? ...

6. Dissonance Breeds DIssidents
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... being afraid to speak it.    Sadly much of the bad blood that has been generated is because church leaders have concentrated on routing out the dissidents rather than addressing their ...

7. Making Christ Our Life Not Our Living
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... church is in the grip of Amos's famine [Amos 8:11-12].   Even now, many have gone out to gather herbs and these dear ones are oblivious to the fact that there is death in the pot are unwittingly poisoning ...

8. Be the Difference
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... bring back the strayed  6  (v4) seek the lost    But what difference can I make I hear you say.  I don't pastor a church, I don't even go to church; I'm not trained etc etc ...

9. Burnout
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...  When I was part of a highly energetic-self-living-for-God Pentecostal community one of the favourite mantras in the church was 'I'd rather burnout than rust out.'  To be burned out for Jesus was ...

10. Growing Gracefully – Questions, Questions
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... fly them into church buildings, destroying all in their wake.   I greatly suspect that Hebrews 6:4 has been commandeered in the same misguided way as Hebrews 7 has been recruited to teach tithing ...

11. The Pursuit of Holiness – Trying to become what you already are
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... proliferation of “holiness” teaching in the Church today, it might come as a surprise to note that the word “holy” appears only eight times in the New Testament. More importantly, ...

12. Full of Eastern Promise
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... the key, the real spark that ignites the raging inferno of faith.      Our hosts were Peter & Seefen Sze. They planted their church, TNCC just seven months ago with thirty people. ...

13. God's Not Deaf
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... your subs] 4. Are you righteous? [If you are in Christ then you are righteous 2 Cor 5:21 now as you will ever be)   5. Do you fast? [Church speak for "If all else fails try a hunger strike ...

14. Silencing Satan
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... to the church to cultivate, replenish and take care of.  Jesus does not dispute that satan has the authority over Earth or that it’s within satan’s gift to make Him such an offer.  Yet, ...

15. Becoming An Him-Potent Person (Easter Meditation)
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... this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.  And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  I will give you the ...

16. The Peter Principle
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... self-improvement and self-advancement.  The evidence is everywhere around us; even the “church” has bought itself into the self-improvement myth and in so doing, has become knavishly self-absorbed. ...

17. "Though I have Fallen, I will Rise" (Easter Meditation)
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... important of all, how could Peter be the one upon whom Jesus would build the church against which the gates of hell would not prevail?  Peter has failed; he weeps bitterly.   Peter is conflicted. ...

18. The Via Dolorosa (Easter Meditations)
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... Church of my youth and I was doing what is called the Via Dolorosa or The Stations of the Cross.    The ritual is one of the most important Lent observances and something I loved as a child. ...

19. Speaking the Truth in Love
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... on our capacity to engage in healthy confrontation. The ability to engage in healthy confrontation transcends the church, affecting every aspect of our lives. Nonetheless, the reality is that for all but ...

20. False Self Syndrome
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... that well-intentioned ministers inciting their members to live for God are spreading this virus in churches. How ironic that as these men and women earnestly seeks to live a holy life their very ambition ...