Pictures of the Pool Party

Here are the pictures of the last pool party. We had a ball! We hope you can join us on this Sunday at 5:00pm.



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My Score on Eschatology

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You scored as Amillenialist Amillenialism believes that the 1000 year reign is not literal but figurative, and that Christ began to reign at his ascension. People take some prophetic scripture far too literally in your view. Amillenialist 75% Moltmannian Eschatology 70% Premillenialist 60% Preterist 50% Postmillenialist 40% Left Behind 20% Dispensationalist 10%

How I Scored As A Theologain

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You scored as Jonathan Edwards You're the original hellfire-and brimstone preacher and you take God's justice very seriously. You are passionate about preaching and an accomplished theologian. Jonathan Edwards 80% John Calvin 67% Anselm 67% Karl Barth 60% Friedrich Schleiermacher 53% Martin Luther 47% Augustine 47% Paul Tillich 27% Jürgen Moltmann 20% Charles Finney 13%

My Theological Worldview Score

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You scored as Emergent/Postmodern You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this. Emergent/Postmodern 82% Reformed Evangelical 75% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 64% Neo orthodox 61% Fundamentalist 54% Classical Liberal 43% Roman Catholic 39% Charismatic/Pentecostal 29% Modern Liberal 21%

These scores seem to be pretty right on. Why don't you take the test and let me know how you score. (docfarrand@gmail.com)

Blessings

A Lifestyle of Spirit-Led Leadership

from: Simple Church Journal

The following is from Kent Smith (emailed to me some time back by Mike Steele) on 'A Lifestyle of Spirit-Led Leadership.' Kent is a missions professor at Abilene Christian University and has been involved in training leaders of simple churches:

The great soccer player Pele was quoted saying, 'I have just three moves . . . but I do them very, very well.'

That brought to mind one of my favorite quotes from Peter Drucker: 'Effective people focus on a few areas where outstanding performance will produce outstanding results.'

We want to be an expert at:
1) Loving, hearing and obeying Jesus.
2) Leading others to love, hear and obey Jesus.
3) Leading the leaders of others to love hear and obey Jesus.

If we do these things well, we believe we will fulfill the Lord's purpose for our relational family and the peoples and cities God calls us to bless and encourage around the world.

In light of this . . .

We don't assume that the challenge and task we face is first and foremost church planting. We assume ra"

A word from House Church

One of the unintended consequences of conventional churches and their focus to grow is the subtle, and sometimes not-so-subtle, message that unreached people are targets that need to be “reached” and “brought in.”

I heard the atheist, Matt Caspar (Jim and Caspar Go to Church), speak at a conference and describe how he asked his new Christian friend, “Am I your friend or your project?” His question reflects the way Christians have gone about relating to the world around them and the perception that unChristians have as a result.

On the one hand, there is the reality that the Father’s heart is broken for children who are separated from Him. This is central to a Biblical worldview in which Jesus, who came to seek and save the lost, invites us to join Him in the missional adventure of taking His good news and compassion to a broken, truly-lost world. God is not simply a God on a mission, He is a missional God at His very loving core.

However, when this message is coupled with an organized church’s “vision to grow”, it is so easy for our passion to love and bless people to take on a religious, weighty sense of performance"

SimpleChurch Journal aka House Church Blog: The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community

SimpleChurch Journal aka House Church Blog: The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community: "The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community

Halter Hugh Halter and Matt Smay have written an interesting book on 'Creating Incarnational Community.' It's a good read. Following is not a book review, rather just some notes (and quotes) that I wrote after reading it:

Author Hugh Halter tells this story:

As I’m sitting at a Starbucks in the final week of editing this book, I just took a break to talk to a guy named Don. Don grew up in a non-practicing Catholic home, watched his father convert to a Seventh-Day Adventist tradition, but only remembers the types of meat he couldn’t eat. His wife hates the idea of God, and Don’s already expressed his disdain for organized church. Since he seemed open to talk, I lobbed up this question: 'If Christianity was only about finding a group of people to live life with, who shared openly their search for God and allowed anyone, regardless of behavior, to seek too, and who collectively lived by faith to make the world a little more like Heaven, would you be interested?”

“Hell yes!” was his reply. He continued, “Are there churches like that?”

On belonging to those we are reaching:"

Lighting Storm Affects Our Property

These are the pictures of the results of the recent storm that pass through our property.