College Students and Hooking Up

As we keep talking about here at Kingdom Living it is vitally important that we understand the culture that is all around us. If we are going to reach people we need to understand what they are going through. This is another video from the Song of Songs documentary group about hooking up. This video [...]

Wake Up Call on Evangelism

I am starting to see a parallel between the last 100+ years of evangelism and Acts 1:8. In Acts 1:8 Jesus tells his disciples that they will be witnesses in Jerusalem - Judea - Samaria - and the ends of the earth. The last 100 or so years of church growth has been a lot [...]

Still Wrapping My Modern Head Around Post-Modernism

Here is a nice little summary statement that I came up with in trying to wrap my tiny brain around post-modernism:
Modern – want to know it is right before they can feel a part of it.
Post-modern – want to feel a part before they can know it is right.
Any thoughts?

Dan Kimball on the Importance of Dialogue in Reaching Post-Christians

I really thought this quote from Dan Kimball hit the nail on the head,
“We must cultivate a culture that allows dialogue. Evangelicals have been criticized–many times rightly so–for being dogmatic and closed-minded. For too long we have been doing all the talking, without any dialogue. We are now serving new generations that have serious trust [...]

Blue Like Jazz - Not Really Getting It

I have read a couple of chapters of Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller and I have to say that I just cannot really get into it. I think it just seems like he is trying to be purposefully flippant or maybe it is that the book is fluffy with an air that it really [...]

Unpacking the Pew Study and Evangelicals’ View of Pathways to Eternal Life

The statistic that is getting a lot of airtime on the blogs is that 57% of evangelical Christians said that many religions can lead to eternal life (which is actually one of the lowest percentages among groups in the study).

Most people are drawing their conclusions based on this chart. Based on this chart how would [...]

Pew Research Study on Religion in America and Some Notes on Interpreting Data

Philip and Jordan emailed me about this study yesterday and it looks like Dr. Three Sticks beat me to it. I am still digesting it and have requested some data from Pew (which I am guessing they have a policy not to release) to do a little analysis of my own on the numbers. Here [...]

Dan Kimball’s Emerging Church

I have been reading up on the Emerging/Emergent church a little because I am invested in understanding and reaching out to people who have grown up with a postmodern perspective. Kimball splits this book into two halves - the first half is theoretical to help the reader understand the underlying cultural concepts that are a [...]

Transition from Traditional Bible Class to Missional 20 and 30 Somethings

We continue to work to make our 20s and 30s group at Northwest something better. I for one tend to be someone who types a bunch of thoughts in a blog post about this or that but I don’t always include a lot of nuts and bolts of how to get something done. This is [...]

Moving From Contemplating the Biblical Navel to Real Application

I am guilty of writing a bunch of thoughts, opinions, and various and sundry other ways of contemplating the biblical navel and end the discussion gaining little more than having thought about something a little more or with a slight nuance. How many of you feel your life has never been the same since reading [...]