Reinvention involves anticipating, designing, and implementing change. According to Jim Merhaut, effective reinvention requires a leadership mindset ready to disrupt, experiment, and stabilize, ensuring meaningful, lasting change that shapes the future identity of the church.
Partners for Sacred Places helps churches see their spaces anew
Bob Jaeger and his team at Partners for Sacred Places want struggling American congregations to know there are numerous ways to preserve and use aging facilities beyond just seeing them become pieces of commercial real estate.
Was What Vance Told Hannity About Immigration Actually a ‘Christian Concept’?
Comments Vice President J.D. Vance made this week explaining what he called a “Christian concept” are generating heated debate among Christians online. During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Hannity and Vance were discussing President Donald Trump’s immigration approach when Vance explained his belief that Americans should have a hierarchy of affections towards others.
...we are now seeing the emergence of what might be called "right exvangelicalism." If left exvangelicals sought to keep Jesus but dispense with the church, right exvangelicals are following a similar trajectory, but from the other side of the political spectrum. This causes the right exvangelical to end up mirroring the left exvangelical, as it were: Start with right-wing politics circa 2025 and then come to Christianity after you've already committed to the political vision of the American right. But whereas this move caused left exvangelicals to keep a proxy of Jesus and dispense with the church, it is causing right exvangelicals to keep a proxy of the church and dispense instead with Jesus....
SBC pastor opposes ICE raids in churches and gets labeled ‘woke’ by far right
A Southern Baptist pastor in Tennessee who told his congregation of his concerns about President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging immigration crackdown has been labeled a woke Leftist by a far-right advocacy group.
Greta Gaffin digs into the backstory behind the Anglican Catholic Church's revocation of Calvin Robinson's license to officiate.
Bishop Budde went viral because she showed us what's wrong with American religion
The sermon reminded many Americans what public religious faith looked like in the not-so-distant past, when the Episcopal Church was the de facto faith of the American ruling class.
Chances are a big chunk of what you’re going to do today in leadership is think. Add a crisis or instability into the mix, and your thinking can easily get tripped up into some well worn but dangerous directions.
7 Things the Holy Spirit Does in and for Our Salvation
Kevin DeYoung explains the work of the Holy Spirit from a Reformed perspectve.
Does Believing in God’s Sovereignty Mean We Must Be Fatalists?
...the question of how human choice and divine sovereignty can coexist is big and difficult, but it’s also vitally important for Christians to consider.
While Vance cited Augustine's 'ordo amoris' in support of his contention that Christianity teaches a hierarchy of love, a careful reading of what Augustine wrote in its entirety does not support his contention.The Rise of the Right-Wing Exvangelical
...we are now seeing the emergence of what might be called "right exvangelicalism." If left exvangelicals sought to keep Jesus but dispense with the church, right exvangelicals are following a similar trajectory, but from the other side of the political spectrum. This causes the right exvangelical to end up mirroring the left exvangelical, as it were: Start with right-wing politics circa 2025 and then come to Christianity after you've already committed to the political vision of the American right. But whereas this move caused left exvangelicals to keep a proxy of Jesus and dispense with the church, it is causing right exvangelicals to keep a proxy of the church and dispense instead with Jesus....
SBC pastor opposes ICE raids in churches and gets labeled ‘woke’ by far right
A Southern Baptist pastor in Tennessee who told his congregation of his concerns about President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging immigration crackdown has been labeled a woke Leftist by a far-right advocacy group.
This article goes into greater detail than an earlier article to which I posted a link.Calvin Robinson Loses License After Parody
Greta Gaffin digs into the backstory behind the Anglican Catholic Church's revocation of Calvin Robinson's license to officiate.
Bishop Budde went viral because she showed us what's wrong with American religion
The sermon reminded many Americans what public religious faith looked like in the not-so-distant past, when the Episcopal Church was the de facto faith of the American ruling class.
Related article: Washington bishop’s plea to Trump inspires first-time visits to Episcopal churches4 Types Of Thinking That Will Sabotage Your Leadership
Whether the uptick in visits in response to Budde's sermon and the controversy surrounding it benefits the Episcopal Church in the long term only time will tell.
Chances are a big chunk of what you’re going to do today in leadership is think. Add a crisis or instability into the mix, and your thinking can easily get tripped up into some well worn but dangerous directions.
7 Things the Holy Spirit Does in and for Our Salvation
Kevin DeYoung explains the work of the Holy Spirit from a Reformed perspectve.
Does Believing in God’s Sovereignty Mean We Must Be Fatalists?
...the question of how human choice and divine sovereignty can coexist is big and difficult, but it’s also vitally important for Christians to consider.
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