KEEPING CHURCH SIMPLE – PART 1C I finally realized that the problem with the church was a personal problem! But intertwined in our structural and theological rediscovery of church was an even more primary piece to the puzzle. The puzzle had so many pieces in place, but the center piece was still missing. And as […]
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Keeping Church Simple – Part 1B [by Greg Hubbard]
KEEPING CHURCH SIMPLE – PART 1B I then suspected that the problem with the church was a theological problem. I had only been in Las Vegas for a few months when my fellow Apex leaders and I began sensing some issues brewing beneath the surface of our seemingly “successful” church. These issues would have been […]
Keeping Church Simple – Part 1A [by Greg Hubbard]
KEEPING CHURCH SIMPLE – PART 1A I next suspected that the problem with the church was a cultural problem. After college, I spent five years involved in church planting in the New York City Metro Area. Part of that time I spent on a church-planting team in the New Jersey suburbs. The remainder of that […]
Keeping Church Simple – Part 1 [by Greg Hubbard]
A friend of ours who currently resides in Las Vegas, NV has been on an interesting journey over the past several years. He has chronicled a bit of that for a class he was teaching at a mid-western Bible college. He shared that paper with us when we were out there in October last year, […]
Men And The Church
Chris said… “Anyway, on a slightly more serious note, I’ve been having a discussion lately with a few people and the question keeps coming up – why do women tend to be more into ‘church’ than men do? Does that make men less spiritual, somehow?” No. That’s the short answer. 🙂 Again, I think we’re […]
The church
Just been thinking again about what the church really is. This past week I was reminded (while I was in a mostly empty church building) that it is not about any of the programming we do (sorry to you worship planners out there…) it is so much about being the church. The group of people […]
Church Membership
We went to a church membership class last night at one of our home churches… and, well, it just got me thinking about the whole idea of church membership. I don’t really agree with it. 🙂 I mean, I agree with being a member of THE Church… but, not really all these little man-made things […]
The Church
This one is for you fellow "church leaders" out there… Imagine a church that really behaved as a complete body. Where every member (and I don’t mean the ones who went forward and said some silly phrase of initiation… I mean the people who are part of the church on a regular basis) was an […]
Recommended Reading
About mid-way through March of this year, I decided I would like to try reading one of those daily Bibles. I had been dabbling in reading some of the Old Testament, which I had not done for a while, and I figured what better way than to read through it in manageable, daily selections? I […]
Marriage: Great Risk, Great Reward It's not in what you get, but what you give. And give up.
Marriage is hard. If you’re soon to be wed and you hear those words, you eschew them as the trite acrimony of bitter people. That will never be true for us, you say to yourself, sure of the truth of your conviction. Without fail, you discover that the union of two lives into one is […]