Category Church

Church, Church Chew, Culture

Nuff Said: “Ordinary” Sundays, Methodists circa 2014, Top 35 Christian blogs and the Youth Pastor Accidental Screenshare

In this collection of articles, you'll read about the danger for ministers of hyping every Sunday, a glimpse at the Methodist debate related to sexuality circa 2014, Brian Dodd's recommended Top 35 Christian blogs and John Crist's video about a youth pastor trying to use screenshare.

Jeff Noble
August 1, 2019

Church, Church Chew, Faith

More reasons people leave the church

It's hard to believe that saying "yes" too much may lead someone to leave your church. Another possibility for leavers is when a member becomes embarrassed about their uninvolvement.

Jeff Noble
July 23, 2019
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Book Review, Church, Church Chew, Leadership, Parchment Reviews

Review: Deep & Wide, Part 2

Part 2 of the review of Andy Stanley's book "Deep & Wide.." We must learn to think deeply again. We've become like the "Modern Family" sitcom in our ecclesiology - adrift and in reaction mode to what's happening around us. We have no strategy and act like we have no mission. We're simply in our church living rooms spouting off one-liners and have become the slapstick of society. Our youth and college students struggle to apply (or even know) scriptural principles to living and decisions.

Jeff Noble
April 11, 2014
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Book Review, Church, Church Chew, Leadership, Parchment Reviews

Review: Deep & Wide, Part 1

Deep & Wide by Andy Stanley was one of the books I began 2014 reading with Dave Farris, our campus pastor in Pulaski, Virginia. Andy is the pastor of North Point Church near Atlanta, and his book Visioneering is on…

Jeff Noble
March 10, 2014

Church, Church Chew

Apologizing to your church for leaving

I’m grateful to local pastor Sandy Young for tweeting about Edwin Andrew Love’s post Three Things I Need to Say. Love’s entry is a profound apology to a church he left, and it contains insightful reflections on our mindset of…

Jeff Noble
September 6, 2013

Book Review, Church, Discipleship, Faith, Parchment Reviews

Review: “Radical Together”

David Platt’s Radical Together is a followup to his book Radicaland is intended to be a tome for the corporate church rather than for the individual Christian. Platt’s first book was an in-your-face approach intended to slap, sometimes not too…

Jeff Noble
November 6, 2011

Church, Church Chew

Leaving your church: Don’t insult a man’s wife

Don’t Insult a Man’s Wife As you consider not going to “church,” you must force yourself to consider the spiritual realities of your disassociation with the body of believers that the New Testament calls the “bride” of Christ. (Revelation 21.2,…

Jeff Noble
January 26, 2011
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Church, Church Chew

How to leave your church

I hope I’ve made a case for asking significant questions and considering eternal issues as you consider “leaving your church.” If you are just stopping in, scroll down to the bottom and read the first entries in this series so…

Jeff Noble
July 30, 2010
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Church, Church Chew

Why leave your church?

We’re picking up where we left off in this series about leaving the church. In this entry, we simply want to recognize the obvious: in order toleave your church, you have to have been apart of one. One of the…

Jeff Noble
May 31, 2010
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