Ragamuffin Soul

In order to be in true Christian community you have to go to “church.”
In order to be in true Christian community you have to be in a “small group.”
In order to be in true Christian community you have to be in a “bible study.”
These are all definitions that have been placed on church members throughout [...]

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When I do a google image search for the words “Small Group” I get results with pages and pages of churches.
I’ve been in dozens of “small groups” in my adult church life.
I have loved many of the people in these groups.
But I’ll admit, the group in which I actually did life with the people I [...]

How different would our ministries be if we disconnected our legitimacies from the outcomes of our ministries and instead rooted our identity in the fact the we are sons and daughter of the Living God.
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Bobby Gruenewald is one my favorite thinkers in church world.
He is always pushing and moving in directions most churches will only dare go once he has tried.
He had this post on the Swerve blog a year ago that I use on an almost weekly basis in conversations I’m in with churches where “Excellence” is a [...]