Mar 31, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak
“Yes: where two or three come together in my name, I’ll be there in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:20 NTE). Can we conceive of a Christ-centered faith in which two or three are gathered as his household? Context Matters (but application counts)...
Mar 28, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak
“Yes: where two or three come together in my name, I’ll be there in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:20 NTE). “Christ said two or three, not two or three hundred.” —Simone Weil Christians: What if… what if the church can no longer meet in buildings,...
Sep 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
Nearby our church, there’s a halfway house for men who are nearing the end of their incarceration. One of the core families in our church lives in between the church and the halfway house. The father in that family is an interesting character. He looks like some...
Aug 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
You’re probably familiar with statements such as, “we don’t GO to church. We ARE the church.” There are similar ones that go something like this: “Church is not what we do when we gather on Sunday mornings for an hour or so. Church is not a place or a building. It’s...
Apr 27, 2010 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
Conclusion As I neared the end of writing this book I had coffee with a close friend of mine. He told me a story about a young man that he had become friends with. This young man left the Church because his experience of it had been of a surface...
