Posted on November 30, 2010 at sometime around 12:52 pm
Here is a link to the top 100 Christian blogs. I find a whole lot of value in what many of these people say and think. It takes a lot of work to try and write – and it can be very vulnerable as well. No matter what your faith orientation, you can find something of interest.
Some of my favorites on the list include:
Ragamuffin Soul (worship/Christian life)
Human3rror / ChurchCrunch (tech)
Pete Wilson at WithoutWax.tv (pastoral/Christian life)
Worship Matters (worship – the book is even better than the blog)
Stuff Christians Like (hilarious/insightful)
Church Marketing Stinks / Ed Stetzer (church statistics/market research)
I hope you find some beneficial reading!
Posted on February 2, 2010 at sometime around 5:04 pm
Here is a quote that Pete posted for all of us who have been hurt by the church from Henry Nouwen:
“When we have been wounded by the Church, our temptation is to reject it. But when we reject the Church it becomes very hard for us to keep in touch with the living Christ. When we say, “I love Jesus, but I hate the Church,” we end up losing not only the Church but Jesus too.
The challenge is to forgive the Church.
This challenge is especially great because the Church seldom asks us for forgiveness, at least not officially. But the Church as an often fallible human organization needs our forgiveness, while the Church as the living Christ among us continues to offer us forgiveness.
It is important to think about the Church not as “over there” but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom we are part and in whom we meet our Lord and Redeemer.”
Thoughts?
