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further thoughts…

Questions that have been on my mind:
 

what is the purpose of church?  is it the same or different from the purpose of Christ?  
what does it mean, I mean, REALLY MEAN, to serve?
what is, really, salvation?  Is it possible to, as many churches would have you believe and do, save other people?  This prospect makes [...]

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So this summer has been cruising along at a hellish blast out here in philly at BSM.  I have found myself quite comfortable in this funky church.  The people who work here all care deeply about what it means to live and be a church in Philly, and it definitely shows–in the friendliness of those [...]

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Yesterday morning I suckered my ‘rents and my bro into driving up to San Francisco with me to scope out Mission Bay Community Church (I billed it as an “excellent family bonding opportunity” in “sunny SF,” which was incidentally far enough away from the Santa Cruz fires that the air didn’t smell like a campfire [...]

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I have been reading more and more blogs lately that have a tendency to blast those who were born after 1981 as having no culture or no class or no sense of theology.  These bloggers call us the “Dissillusioned Generation,” or accuse us lacking any unique culture ” or of whining too much, or finally of being silent (not always a [...]

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