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• congregational life, doing church, rules

  Four and only four rules for doing church

  03.12.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I’ve been reading books like Organic Community and Finding Our Way for work. At the same time, the congregation is moving into a looser knit, team-based ministry model (as opposed to a council and committee structure). I’m learning a lot.
  It’s a bit chaotic at times. We’re trying to focus on our assets, […]

• rules, SAT, speaking-in-tongues

  No speaking in tongues, please

  06.28.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  An easily distracted seventeen-year-old I was tutoring said to me today, “Hey, Chutney, I’m going to start talking to you in a language I just made up.”
  He then proceeded to speak in tongues—at least in the opinion of this experienced ex-charismatic. And by “speaking in tongues,” I mean he sounded exactly like the red […]

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