Category: Slow Church

  • Allowing Others To Count The Cost

    Allowing Others To Count The Cost

    I’m sitting here this morning thinking over the passage we will be reading at the Diakonos Community Simple Church Gathering tomorrow morning. Our theme for the day is “We Die With Christ.” I’m particularly struck by these two illustrations presented by Jesus: “Don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of…

  • A Call To Integrated Lives and Churches: Reflections On Reading Slow Church

    One of our families early encounters with missional church was being a part of Bluer (now Renewal Vineyard) in Minneapolis.  I often remember Pastor John Musick’s expression for sin: “disintegrated lives.”  It really caught the essence of all the ways our culture tries to pull us away from the holistic, integrated lives God desires for…