I just read this post on worship bands by Fearsome Tycoon over at the Boar's Head Tavern. He has this to say about worship bands. A huge part of it is theological. There is no way to do “praise band” without turning the service into a “show.” Disagree? Find me one praise band that plays
Yesterday morning I was at a rather large church here in Toronto. It was a good service, the preacher there is very good. It was strange though because it was one of their pastors last days. He was changing roles. Instead of replacing him from within the congregation they had flown in a pastor from
Here's a thought that just struck me while reading this. Whoever a Christian calls his enemy he has to love. This is the basis of true revolution. The successful revolutions of the 20th Century, Be it Martin Luther King's civil rights movement, Mandela's anti-apartheid movement, or even Gandhi's movement to free India were love revolutions.
My new career goal is to become a senior pastor at a megachurch. Essentially a megachurch pastor is the closest you can get to being a medieval bishop. You get a six day weekend by milking your congregants for all they are worth on Sundays. It's almost like feudalism with the congregants as voluntary serfs.
This was supposed to be a book but I don't have the attention span. I started writing about this last summer, but Brant Hansen reminded me of it today a few days ago with this post, (though why this one didn't do it I'm not sure). Perhaps we're not all supposed to be leaders. I