Exciting times/collection of random thoughts

I hope any readers of this blog spot are checking out the joint spot I share with a team, Redemptive Communities

I believe that a lot of very common practices hamper the recovery and restoration of the hearts of God's people. Many of these practices are very core, yet not biblical. The book Pagan Christianity documents many of these practices that concern me. Maybe I will blog a series on these points, but in the mean time, I really recommend the latter edition, co-authored by George Barna and Frank Viola and published this year, to anyone. Excitingly, my review of Pagan Christianity that I published on the Redemptive Communities site is linked to from paganchristianity.org.

Speaking of community: been in discussions with a couple of different men on some efforts of community here in Colorado Springs. One has an effort he calls Amplify, that is to plant a different kind of church here in the Springs. He has studied and found that several of our standard practices are not in the Bible. The other is looking at a kind of church multiplication movement for the Springs. We'll see if any bear fruit.