All you need is...

Too many of us as pastors have measured our ministries by what we are against. We take these hard stances against this signaled out sin or that perceived sin.

However, as I read the Gospels, I hear Jesus saying: "The biggest sin you can commit is to neglect love!"

Secondly, too many of us measure success by our expositional or creative or leadership genius, when Paul says if we all of that, and have not love, we have nothing. Zip!

I truly believe pastors need to lead the church back to the way of love.

I truly believe God's Word can be summed up in one word: Love.

Jesus said if we get that right, everything else will take care of itself.

Why do we have to complicate it?

Take it back...

We live in the most highly educated society and the most highly participatory culture in the history of humankind. Everything around us has changed: the clothes we wear, the way we transport ourselves, how we communicate.

And yet, 99% of preachers stand up on Sunday morning and deliver a monologue. A soliloquy.

And their churches decline...

And they wring their hands....

There is another way...

There is a way of participation and inclusion and dialogue and conversation!

"I am, You Are"

Life is not about any particular achievement or experience...

The most important task of your life is not what you DO but who you BECOME!

This Sunday marks the first Sunday service of Reality Church and I'm starting a 5-week series called "I am, You are".

You will not want to miss this... It Will Change Your Life!

Meeting at:
Wired Coffee House
Hendersonville, TN
Sundays - 11am

Reality Church

...becoming a Reality this Sunday! 

 Starting this Sunday @ 11am : A relevant, contemporary, progressive, post-modern, AND Christ-centered church invites you to be a part of its very first service in Hendersonville, TN.

Don't do the church thing? It's okay! Neither did I…

You!                             You are accepted for who you are.... period.

God!                 To know Him better and love Him with all that we are.

Being  Real!              No perfect people allowed. We enjoy people just being themselves.

Relationships!          God is far more interested in relationships than rules… so are we.

Hendersonville!        To serve the people of this city in ways that improves their quality of life. The

Bible!                 The greatest book ever written… it has got to be divine.

Meeting at:

Wired Coffee House
699 West Main Street Hendersonville, TN 37075

Sundays 11am

See you there!

                  

Grace & Truth

There are those who struggle with the pure, undiluted grace of God, so they take the concept of balance and try to apply it here. They can't very well deny the grace of God  --  it's too evident in Scripture. But they'll try to tone it down with this argument:

"Well, yes," they say. "Grace is a wonderful truth. But you have to keep grace and truth in balance with each other so you don't go to an extreme."

Since few people want to be "extreme," that seems to make reasonable sense.... This approach is problematic because it draws a line down the middle and puts grace on one side and truth on the other, as if the two are in opposition to each other. It's as if they're saying that grace is not truth and truth is not grace. That's not what the Bible says.... If you're going to draw a line, draw it between grace and legalism, not between grace and truth. Just a thought...

Family

 

Think on this...

Parents,  remember in 2012 that nothing in the world highlights and underscores the transcendent values of God like the church. Sports don’t do it. Education doesn’t do it. Movies and media don’t do it. Only the local church does. And I can’t emphasize enough the importance and priority the local church should play in the life of your family...

Because when you run to HIS HOUSE, you’ll discover how to run YOUR HOUSE...