Today I attended a worship service at a church which I believe is struggling to authentically enact and understand the radical communion (“common union”) of the Kingdom reality. Its musical worship did not consistently feel like it measured up to this commitment, though. Week after week, in this church and in others, I find myself […]
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Evangelical Pennsylvania’s Diluted Faith
In the town where I grew up, every church is pretty much an evangelical church. The poorly-attended mainline and Catholic churches are usually no exception. The language clergy use is highly individualistic and the “goal” of most congregations is to get more people into heaven (i.e. “accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior”). […]