Some of the many things I’ll never get around to blogging:<\/p>\n
A picture of the Appian Way<\/a>, just like Paul walked on.<\/p>\n 10 Things First-Time Church Visitors Don’t Want to hear<\/a>.<\/p>\n And, related, Eight Terrible Church Visits<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ed Stetzer is blogging (in tiny installments) about laypeople and the mission of God. Part three: customers to owners<\/a>. Part four: changing the culture of expectation in your Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n A great but terrible podcast from Andy Stanley on pastors as leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n Megachurch Come-and-See Movement Fizzling?<\/a> Huh? This is a deliberately-provocative headline — the question mark is in the original — or it’s just wrong-headed. I get that an attractional church model might not be effective today, but “come and see” is invitational and, so, missional. Certainly the often cited scriptural examples in John 1 and 4<\/a> are missional.<\/p>\n A mixed review of Tullian Tchividjian’s Glorious Ruin<\/cite><\/a>. It’s a gentle critique, so I’ll gently respond that the pros far outweigh the cons. This is an important contribution that the North American church could stand to hear more of.<\/p>\n Let pastors be pastors<\/a>. It’s always fun to read a perspective from the other side of the church, where there are expectations for pastors to be strong leaders, entrepreneurs, and evangelists.<\/p>\n This: Why evangelicals should defend Mormons from Mockery<\/a>.<\/p>\n Going back to believable evangelism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some of the many things I’ll never get around to blogging: A picture of the Appian Way, just like Paul walked on. 10 Things First-Time Church Visitors Don’t Want to hear. And, related, Eight Terrible Church Visits. Ed Stetzer is blogging (in tiny installments) about laypeople and the mission of God. Part three: customers to … Continue reading »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tab-sweep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}