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Things You Never See,

William Guice — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:15:38 +0000

in the contemporary church but I got to see these past few days…and to me they were beautiful. 1) 75 or so people gathered to worship on a Friday morning on a non-holiday. 2) A couple of hundred people sitting and talking at a potluck on a Thursday night until well after 9pm – kids [...]

Hybrid Christians

William Guice — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:22:28 +0000

Something that church leaders know but I’ve never heard discussed is the pastoring of hybrid Christians. What I mean by this is that in our world teaching and theology are “in the cloud”. At any given moment I can listen or watch a sermon, podcast, lecture, debate, teaching, discussion, etc. by any leader that I [...]

Attached

William Guice — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:12:47 +0000

Two ideas that have stirred me this week… We come to receive the Eucharist not just to receive but knowing that we are to take back to our communities what Christ has given us and shown us in meeting him in the Eucharist. and… When one of us is poor we all suffer; when one [...]

The Lump

William Guice — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:50:44 +0000

This is a diagram I drew in class last January. I was relating an observation about life and more specifically discipleship in the exurbs. Here’s the gist of it. *Built on the 1/3′s life model (1st Third – Formation; 2nd Third – Productive Time; 3rd Third – Giving Back) *The first third for the most [...]

This is Church!

William Guice — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 04:49:03 +0000

We Protect What We Value (2)

William Guice — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:25:04 +0000

When that first came across my Twitter feed two nights ago, I wept. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJDqVx3RlzI This is so disheartening to me. I am not upset or hurt by the volunteer who did this, they acted in a way that they gathered is the appropriate response in their setting. I’m kinda upset with Elevation Church but not [...]

We Protect What We Value

William Guice — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:01:06 +0000

When your idea of church is built on what happens here… Then things like this are going to happen… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJDqVx3RlzI And things like this will become the norm. *We protect what we value and show is ever so valuable (to most but not all). Sadly I think it’s because without it our churches would fall [...]

Fearing the End of the World (from Matthew Paul Turner)

William Guice — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:20:59 +0000

Consolidating What Is Left

William Guice — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:30:58 +0000

Three or four days ago I came across this article http://goo.gl/0Xxl9 from David Fitch. This line captured my attention: “mega churches continuing to grow, consolidating what is left of the Christendom populations, providing a traditional church services to the shrinking masses of already existing Christians and lapsed Christians coming back into the fold,” Consolidating what [...]

Just to be Clear: I Was Never a Navy Seal

William Guice — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:22:30 +0000

1) Important: To be clear…I am not, nor have I never been a navy seal, a ranger, delta force, a member of army nor was I one of Oceans 11, 12 or 13. 2) More important: This situation is really sad on a number of levels. 3) Most Important: What does this say about what [...]