Is your church paying attention?

"...we’re facing one of the largest shifts in human communication in the history of the world. This is not hyperbole. Social media has caused literally every societal building block to adapt. Social media is a small, tip-of-the-iceberg, visible manifestation of the change we’re facing: the gatekeepers are gone."

 Wise, J. (2014). The social church: a theology of digital communication. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers.

Who Do You Want Living Next To You?

Breathing Problems

One of our girls occasionally has a breathing problem and requires special treatments. We are parying that she will out-grow this problem. 

What does "is" mean?

Everything’s getting re-defined these days. “Marriage" can mean most anything. "Garbage collectors" are "Sanitation Engineers." The “mailman" is a "letter carrier." A “receptionist" is an "Administrator’s Assistant." A “ransom" is now “leverage.” Inflation indexes no longer include grocery or gas prices and the unemployment index eliminates those still unemployed but no longer looking for work. Bill Clinton made famous the sentence, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is." 

Some redefinition may be helpful and good. For instance the growing movement to drop the denominational affiliation from the names of our churches. It seems more and more people no longer care about the denominational affiliation. They just want good music, lots of time spent praising God and a short, entertaining and uplifting talk relevant to their life.

Dropping denominational affiliation is a good thing, in my opinion. Hopefully we Christians can concentrate more on what unites us and less on what divides us. Who knows, it might even lead us back to New Testament Christianity.  

2 Of Our Babies This Morning

 

Just picking up a few things at the store....

Munch time....

3 of our girls and 1 of our boys

August 2016 Newsletter

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