I remember learning the song soon and very soon when I was a little kid coming up in the church. I remember discovering the sentiment in it was used by white Christians to placate blacks during slavery telling them that their reward, their release from oppression, would come soon, in the next life, at the end of [...]
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Are the leadership models of choice more than an reaction to unhealthy leadership patterns of the modern church. Some don’t think so. In response to my previous post and comment on his blog Lucas over a my four walls continues the conversation about the flat model of leadership in the emerging church, by comparing Jesus as [...]
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This went largely unreported. The leader of the Taize movement was murdered during a worship service recently .
- See more @ CNN
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Was Jesus a pastor or a leader maybe both or neither?
The more I hear the rationale of some in the emerging conversation for the flat model of leadership the less convinced I am that the conviction in based on following Jesus patterns. It seems more like a sixties retro headless democracy that I think eventually [...]
I’m a pastor, you’re pastor, he’s pastor, she a pastor, wouldn’t you like to be a pastor too. OK which one is it. Is everyone a pastor or is no one pastor, and was Jesus a pastor . John Frye has been stirring up a lot of conversation over at his blog on this subject.
I [...]
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