Archive for January, 2008

Why a Lego wall is stronger than Rob Bell’s brick wall

Friday, January 25th, 2008

By now most folks are familiar with the name Rob Bell and his book Velvet Elvis. In his book, Bell begins to discuss various theological beliefs and whether they are essential to the Christian faith. The analogy that he uses is of the theological tenets being bricks in a wall.

This is NOT what I mean by a Lego church

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Before everybody inundates me with the photos of the church built from Legos that are all over the web, I wanted to go ahead and link over to it to demonstrate what I am NOT talking about.

Replication is not Innovation

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Ben Arment is chewing around the edges of the issue of innovative churches. Earlier this week I was talking with one of the church planters in our Association, and he was talking about planting a “simple church,” and we talked about that paradigm of planting.
Reflecting on these two events, and recalling the host of […]