Podcast: Overflow Episode 5 — Christ-Centered Leadership, Church Growth, and Training in Wisdom

Quotes to Chew On: The Church vs. Religion August 3, 2012

“It’s time for the Church to free itself from the religious holiness of the Pharisees and begin to manifest the holiness of the Kingdom. It’s time for us to realize that our calling is to serve people sacrificially–including prostitutes, tax collectors, and enemies–rather than judging them. It’s time we ceased getting Life from the rightness…

Generous Grace May 22, 2013

Michelle Brea via Compfight Mark McIntyre wrote a piece on his blog called Selective Grace that highlights the ways in which the church tends to more easily demonstrate grace with some than with others. It’s a call to a more generous grace that does not distinguish between particular sins or particular differences in belief. How…

Podcast: How Do We Balance Both Seeking Unity While Also Confronting Error? November 26, 2018

Greg looks at the call to unity and considers things that do not help achieve it.   http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0421.mp3

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…

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

The Purpose of the Church June 11, 2015

Concerning the preaching of the Gospel, Paul wrote that God’s intent was that “through the church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places … in accordance with the eternal purpose that he has carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord”…