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Defining experience of 2010 #4: Becoming our grandmother’s Church (with Geoffrey Wainwright, Rickie Moore, and Jacqui Smith)

Defining experience of 2010 #4: Becoming our grandmother’s Church (with Geoffrey Wainwright, Rickie Moore, and Jacqui Smith)

I’ve never been fond of the trite “new church” language of “We are not your grandmother’s church.”  I can be charitable enough to understand the sentiment–it’s often a way of saying we  have a culture and style that will be outside your expectations of institutional religion.  But even given that, I hate the phrase–it is [...] »

December 27

December 27

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ProBible.net / Acts 19:39 http://goo.gl/9VN5F #ourCOG

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Defining experience of 2010 #7: The overwhelming support of Elevation Church.

Defining experience of 2010 #7: The overwhelming support of Elevation Church.

Whenever Pastor Steven Furtick has introduced me to preach at Elevation, he has always spoken kindly of what he sees as a very particular gift at Renovatus, a different gift for the sake of our city–and it is true that our churches have different flavors.  But let me tell you, there has not been a [...] »