(Also see a longer list here).
Unintentionally there seems to be a recent blog thread developing. The story goes like this: Over the years I've been thinking about church and culture (e.g. here or here), how life entails making difficult decisions (here and here), and that as a church we're really not addressing this well - perhaps because churches already have issues (here). We all have our own story, but sometimes we feel as if we're being cooked by secularism - which can also be positive (here). However, the call from God is to make a story where we bring Jesus into our life's encounters (here) as we seek to be relevant (here). The problem, of course, is that churches are poor at equipping us (here) for the tough conversations (here), and especially for living among the choices of an ethical wasteland (here). So what topics do you think our local church leaders should be personally wrestling with, what issues would you like to bring to your leaders and get an intelligent conversation to help our thinking (not necessarily an answer, because all decisions are ultimately our own). Here are a few suggestions of issues that I am wrestling with so that I can articulate a Christian, biblical, rational, and logical understanding.
I'll leave the last one as a stand alone bullet because it has so many dimensions:
So church leaders, can I come to you next Sunday and ask for your biblically-informed and reasoned thoughts on Jesus' view about any of these?
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