Oct 17, 2024 | Processing
This article is a work in progress… Introduction I’m working through forming language and an overall vision for church leadership, governance, activity, and responsibility. In this post, I’m going to wrestle with the role of elders. It’s part...
Oct 16, 2024 | Processing
A passage has been throwing me for a loop over the past few days. It’s Matthew 24:4-7. Let me lay out the arguments. Matthew quotes Zechariah 9:9, directly, in verse 5: ““Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted...
Jul 15, 2024 | Processing
The following is an excerpt from a larger piece I’m working on. That piece (and this section) is unedited – and the piece is largely unfinished. But I want to share elements of it as I continue to write. Before we dive into the fuller nature of what we can...
Jun 23, 2024 | Processing
Table of Contents Introduction I’m working through forming language and an overall vision for church leadership, governance, activity, and responsibility. In this post, I’m going to start wrestling with the role of the elder. It’s part of a larger...
Jun 19, 2024 | Processing
There are passages in Scripture that don’t feel like they match our expectations. How many of us have faced a horrible situation – one which we have prayed over, cried over, struggled through? A situation that seems to clearly have a right and wrong...
Jun 10, 2024 | Processing
Just a language clarification: I want to use the phrase “non explicit interpretation” – or else “implicit interpretation” – rather than “non literal interpretation.” Because interpretation is concerned with unearthing...
