Sep 22, 2010
Church Culture: Suits and Ties or Jeans and Tees?
Posted by Mitch Sliwa in Gospel Identity - Mission | Comments (4)
Did you grow up in a church where it was the norm for men to wear suits and ladies to wear skirts? Was it considered sinful for women to wear pants? Were you told that rock music was sinful and that anything with a drum beat would lead to dancing and that dancing would lead to fornication? Were you told that if you listened to the band Journey you would inevitably end up doing methamphetamines and kill your parents? If so, you grew up in what I would call a fundamentalist church. What is a Fundamentalism? Mark Driscoll offers someRead More...
Sep 15, 2010
How to Love: Your Agenda vs. True Transformation
Posted by Michael Howarth in Gospel Living - Mission | Comments (5)
In the most recent sermon series “Unvangelism” Pastor Todd has been dismantling the contemporary view of sharing the gospel we all know as “evangelism” and advocating for a return to a very biblical and revolutionary invention: the church as a gospel community. The differences between the two are quite dramatic and I would encourage you to listen to the entire series so far as it takes some time to unpack the nuances. Here are some reflections thus far... Us vs. Them This sectarian mentality is a very well worn rut that Christians haveRead More...
Jun 29, 2010
Unvangelism - A New Series
Posted by Mitch Sliwa in Mission | Comments (3)
On July 11th Sacred Journey will be starting a brand new mini series on the topic of evangelism and mission called Unvangelism. Unvangelism is a word some of us played around with to sort of poke fun at modern American "evangelism". Most forms of evangelism are not overly helpful or even based off the paradigm Jesus laid down when he was here on earth. The marks of American "evangelism" tend to have the following characteristics: Very awkward and scary to do Usually has guilt and a sense of urgency attached to it Comes off to the unchurched as aRead More...
Jun 16, 2010
Going to Church, or Being the Church?
Posted by Mitch Sliwa in Mission - Theology | Comments (0)
Have you ever said the phrases? Where do you go to church? Let's go to church. After we leave church, we will go to lunch. It is important to be in fellowship by going to church. Many if not all of us have used the word Church in this manner. From a quick glance, nothing seems wrong with these phrases, and to a degree there isn't. The is a subtlety in these phrases that stem from a deeper issue and a shallow understanding of what th Church is. Oftentimes we have an oversimplified view of theRead More...
