I recently re-read this quote from Neil Cole:

"If we evaluate our churches not by attendance or buildings but by how recognizible Jesus is in our midst, our influence would be more far-reaching and our strategies would be far more dynamic." (Organic Church p. 57)

I think we should expand this to include ourselves as well as our buildings... If we evaluate ourselves not by our church attendance or our wwjd-Jesus junk that we wear, but by how recognizible Jesus is in our

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Having recently read a couple of books on celtic spirituality I am struck by some very simlar themes that seem to reoccur often in both the emerging church movement and celtic spirituality...

One foundational theme that I read in both movements is that of the basic goodness of God's creation. This concept, it would appear, is in direct antithesis to the Reformed idea of the "total depravitiy of humanity".

Another theme is that God is much more present in all of creation than God

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I posted this on another forum, but since it is an important topic, I post it here too for discussion:

With democrats considering pushing for a partial pull-out from Iraq,
our local newspaper ran an article this morning that had a number of
quotes from the 'public' about Iraq. Most folks quoted seemed slanted
toward a complete pull-out.



From the beginning I've said we never should have gone to Iraq in the
first place, but now that we are there, is it morally responsib… Continue