Ten years ago, Christianity Today carried an article entitled “The Triumph of the Praise Songs: How Guitars Beat Out the Organ in the Worship Wars.” Author Michael Hamilton described how contemporary worship music styles were winning out over more traditional hymnody in many congregations …
“The body of Christ, broken for you.” Communion draws us into brokenness. We don’t turn and run from this torn body. We don’t hide the wounds with a Band-Aid. At the Lord’s Table we can’t help but wait with brokenness …
Running a magazine is a business. Running churchwide agencies and colleges is big business. Congregations pay attention to labor laws for their employees, budget for operating expenses and decide how to depreciate assets …
The wife of a recent seminary graduate on a service assignment in east Africa emailed me a couple months ago …
Consider how business theory applies to the church. Some believe it is the definitive model of how to do church. Others are more skeptical. The church is in the world and submits (hopefully with eyes wide open) to some of the basic laws of earthly economics, but it is not of the world …
