Podcast: How Do You Expel Unrepentant People From Your Church?

The Problem with Mixing Church & Government April 23, 2015

Image by fusion-of-horizons via Flickr Some people insist that the only reason that neither Jesus nor anyone else in the first several centuries of the church tried to dominate the political system of their day was because they were a small minority of people living in a nondemocratic and hostile environment. By contrast, the argument goes,…

Dismembered: The Church and Individualism February 2, 2016

Those God has saved are called to be the church, not go to church. This distinction is vitally important. The church consists of all those who entered into the new covenant that Jesus inaugurated by putting their trust in him and surrendering their life over to him. Yet, the church is much more than a…

God’s Church is Not “Pretty” February 4, 2016

This week we’ve been looking at various aspects of what it means to be the church. Today, I want to address the paradox of how the church can be both beautiful and ugly at the same time. Jesus came into our fractured world to manifest the beauty of God’s reign and revolt against the evil…

Podcast: What if I Don’t Like Church? January 21, 2019

Greg and Dan talk about what to do when we do not like church.  http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0450b.mp3

A Cross-Like Church October 26, 2017

When God’s church loves like God loves—which means valuing the other at cost to self—it will puzzle those outside the church. While such love might cause the religious to rail with outrage, it will cause the searching and the hungry to ask, “how can people love like this?” In God’s plan, this puzzle is what…

Lighten Up: A Seeker-Sensitive Church Naming Committee March 27, 2015