November 4th 2008
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Church,
Missiology 4 Comments
I believe that Jesus planted a (the) church. In my last post, I wrote that His twelve disciples, plus the 70 or so others were a church. That means that everything that has been added to the church since then is, well, extra.
Praise and worship. A sermon. Professional clergy. Buildings, ...
October 17th 2008
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Church,
Missiology 3 Comments
This is the last (for now) part in a series of posts. I'm taking the long way around describing what I find to be a more missiologically sound church.
Whenever we talk about our theology of church, we usually look back to the "first church" that we read about in the ...
October 14th 2008
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Church,
Missiology One Comment
Starbucks realizes that coffee drinkers are looking for local, unique, responsible, and sustainable. Independent coffee houses can be all of these things. It's a lot harder for the mega-corporation, though. They're too concerned with things like quality control, efficiency, brand, and, of course, money. The things that make Starbucks Starbucks ...
October 7th 2008
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Church,
Missiology 5 Comments
Part 1 of this post set the scene with the story of the rise of Starbucks in relation to smaller coffee shops. Part 2 drew parallels between Starbucks and American megachurches. Welcome to part 3.
The similarities between the coffee chain and the megachurch aren't incidental. The seeker-sensitive movement is built ...
In March of this year, Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, announced major changes for the Seattle-based corporation. From the second quarter of 2007 to the second quarter of 2008, Starbucks' stock fell forty percent. The market was over-saturated. The brand name had become synonymous with globalization. In his annual address to ...
Unless writing a lot makes one a "writer," Ernest is an unemployed former missionary. After more than six years in Western Europe, he is moving to Portland, where he drinks too much coffee and over-analyzes human behavior. For more about Ernest, visit the About page where you can read a long-time reader's interview with him. Or, if you don't mind waiting a very, very long time, send him an email.